Hardware OATH Tokens for Azure AD (Entra ID) and Microsoft 365 MFA
Quick Answer: Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) and Microsoft 365 support two ways to use a hardware OATH token for MFA: native hardware OATH token support, which requires an Entra ID Premium P1 or P2 license, or the software-token setup flow, which works without a premium license. Programmable tokens like Protectimus Slim NFC and Flex can be used either way. There are currently two ways to implement an Azure hardware token for...
Top 5 Two-Factor Authentication Products by Protectimus
Protectimus is one of the biggest and most reliable two-factor authentication providers. We’ve been developing cutting-edge 2FA solutions since 2014. Being a coordination member of the OATH Initiative for Open Authentication, Protectimus is one of the strongest voices in the propagation of ubiquitous strong authentication. The main problem Protectimus works on is perfecting multi-factor auth solutions, to make 2FA easier, cheaper, and...
Adaptive Authentication or How to Make 2FA Convenient for Users
Any of us is interested in protecting confidential data from becoming the public domain on the web. Especially from people who are looking for such information for fraudulent purposes. The effective methods to avoid the invasion of online privacy are already known. And one of the most accessible ways is protecting access to your accounts with two-factor authentication. But… unfortunately, people don’t always use this...
How to Enable Protectimus Self-Service Portal
The Protectimus two-factor authentication service and on-premise platform offer a self-service feature that allows users to independently perform a number of actions related to issuing and managing their OTP tokens and their own data. The system administrator determines which actions are available to users. The list of possible actions includes: registration of new tokens;registration of existing tokens;re-assigning the...
Securing VPN with Two-Factor Authentication
VPN, or virtual private network, is a popular and proven security tool used by companies across the globe to protect remote access to their corporate networks, especially today when almost every company switched to remote work, at least in part. VPN allows the creation of an encrypted link between a user and the company’s private server. And while this secures the corporate infrastructure from the direct attacks of malicious agents,...
How to Program a TOTP Token for Any Service
Listen to this article To program a TOTP hardware token, you start two-factor setup on the service as if you were adding an authenticator app, then write the QR code’s secret key into the token instead. With Protectimus Flex or Slim NFC, the Protectimus TOTP Burner app on an NFC-enabled Android phone transfers the key and sets the token’s clock. What Is a Programmable TOTP Token? Hardware TOTP tokens come in two kinds. A...