Secure two factor authentication with iOS devices
The privacyIDEA Authenticator App allows a secure enrollment with Android and iOS devices and mitigates the identity theft.
Flexible Two-Factor Authentication at ownCloud
With the new version 2.5 of the privacyIDEA ownCloud plugin, the administrator can now decide in which case he wants users to authenticate with a second factor and when one factor is enough. The administrator can make this dependent on the IP address of the requesting client. For example, he can force access from the […]
CIO Applications Europe: Netknights achieves top international ranking
This year, the trade magazine “CIO Applications Europe” has chosen NetKnights as one of the TOP25 security companies. The editors emphasized the great success of Netknights meeting the individual needs of companies from different industries – for example the healthcare sector, where the privacyIDEA system cooperates with famos IT solutions such as Citrix, NetScaler, CiscoASA and also with many VPN and firewalls. Thus far, the print magazine is one of the leading IT media brands in Europe. Its rankings lay a special editorial focus on important technological innovations among various sectors.
privacyIDEA Credential Provider version 2.5
Today we release the version 2.5 of the privacyIDEA Credential Provider. The privacyIDEA Credential Provider requires a user to login to the Windows desktop or terminal server using a 2nd factor. The user could use his smartphone with a smartphone app, a one time password token, a Yubikey or Nitrokey to authenticate. As an alternative the authentication backend can also send an Email or text message, containing a one time code, to the user for login.
Once again privacyIDEA 2.23 improves process workflows
The Multi-Factor Authentication system privacyIDEA 2.23 comes with PRE event handling, recurring tasks, monitoring and statistics. The administrator thus has a lot of tools, to automate unforeseen scenarios and avoid manuel, tedious tasks and avoid errors.
NetKnights presents 2FA system privacyIDEA at it-sa
NetKnights will present privacyIDEA at the business fair it-sa. Effective new features are Pre-Event-Handling and Monitoring and Statistics, which allow the administrator to define very specific workflows and autormate tasks.
You will find privacyIDEA at the stand of ownCloud in Hall 10.0-428 – adding enterprise grade 2FA to file sync and share.
More flexibility at the two-factor authentication in ownCloud
Version 2.4 of the privacyIDEA ownCloud App allows for more flexibility with the 2FA login at ownCloud. Using privacyIDEA the administrator can centrally manage users and the second factors of users. With the new release the administrator can also exclude certain user groups from the login with 2FA.
privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition 2.22.1
The privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition 2.22.1 comes with a few minor bug fixes in the Web UI and the server. Problems with OCRA and TiQR tokens were fixed. The usage of unicode in the resolver config with Oracle databases was fixes. A better error handling in the code for Hardware Security Modules makes this usage even more reliable.
privacyIDEA Authenticator with typo fixes and translation
Today we release version 1.0 of the privacyIDEA Authenticator. Using the privacyIDEA Authenticator the smartphones of your users become the factor of possession for a secure login. In addition it allows for a secure enrollment process. The secret key of the app can not be easily copied during enrollment.
privacyIDEA 2.22 allows flexible Authentication at VPNs and Firewalls
With privacyIDEA 2.22 we added the possibility to pass more useful userinformation to a RADIUS client like a VPN. The administrator can add a policy to include the resolver and the realm of a user who authenticated successfully. This response data can then be used in the FreeRADIUS plugin and modified by regular expressions to add any arbitrary RADIUS attribute in the RADIUS response, which then would be sent to the VPN. This additional information can be used by Cisco ASA, Citrix Netscaler or any other enterprise grade VPN to put the user into certain subnets or to assign resource to the user.