Remote Work: How to Transition Team to Working From Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this article, we’ve gathered everything you need to know about remote work. We share our own experiences and talk about how to organize remote access to company resources, how to protect the accounts of users who are working from home, what remote team working tools you can use for communicating and managing tasks, and how to keep in touch with your remote teams. Working remotely during the pandemic is not a mere trend....
Twitter Two-Factor Authentication in Details
With over 145 million active users Twitter is widely used not only for personal entertainment but for business and political agendas too. Yet, surprisingly (or not, considering that they did admit to using phone numbers for targeting ads) Twitter has been reluctant to forgo SMS to deliver one time passwords for their 2 step verification for a very, very long time. Until finally, in November last year, they gave in and allowed for...
Sophos 2FA with Hardware OTP Tokens
Sophos solutions allow for reinforcing Sophos 2FA (two-factor authentication) with Protectimus OTP hardware tokens with one of these two methods: Enabling ‘Auto-create OTP tokens for users’ feature. This automatic method allows for using our programmable Slim NFC token instead of the standard application for multi-factor authentication.Disabling ‘Auto-create OTP tokens for users’ feature. This manual method allows for...
PayPal Two-Factor Authentication with Hardware Security Key
PayPal two-factor authentication became available to users in far 2007. Everybody wishing to protect their PayPal login could order a $5 security token directly from their account. Unfortunately, later the company discontinued the use of its own hardware tokens in favor of SMS-based authentication, decreasing PayPal security considerably. But the situation with PayPal two-factor authentication is changing once again, for the better...
Two-factor authentication for Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
Since Windows is one of the most used systems, especially among various businesses, it makes sense to thoroughly protect it. Protectimus has an excellent two-factor authentication software for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11. In this article, we will look into how it works and how to set it up. And we will address the most common questions on our two-factor authentication for Windows login. How does two-factor authentication for Windows...
LiteBit 2FA with a hardware token
LiteBit 2FA (two-factor authentication) is mandatory for its users. This cryptocurrency exchange pushes you to set up 2-factor authentication during registration and it’s impossible to skip this step. It is also impossible to disable two-factor authentication in LiteBit, you can only change one authentication method to another. Unfortunately, LiteBit 2FA offers only two options by default: SMS authentication or authenticator...