Global Authentication arrives!
Great news! (Well, if you happen to live outside the US and Canada, anyway.) PhoneFactor now offers Global Authentication, with the free service now extended to 36 countries! Global Authentication requires a new PhoneFactor agent, but fortunately, we just released one! It’s available from www.phonefactor.net, but the various third-party sites like download.com probably won’t have [...]
David Berlind on two-factor
The two-factor authentication space is red hot right now, so it’s getting lots of coverage from places like eWeek and, most recently, ZD Net: David Berlind has a great piece on US attitudes toward mullti-factor authentication in which he takes a stab at what a large-scale two-factor rollout has to look like for US customers. [...]
Buzz on Digg
The eWeek articles have been posted to Digg.
"What’s not to love?"
Reacting to the eWeek article, Tom Olzak has some nice things to say about PhoneFactor as well. Thanks, Tom! UPDATE – Whoops, it looks like Tom was quoting from another eWeek article, this time by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Nice review by eWeek
Thanks to Jim Rapoza from eWeek for the great review that came out today. Lots of good stuff there, but my favorite quote is this: Instead, the second factor that PhoneFactor uses is, not surprisingly, the telephone. Using the PhoneFactor service, businesses can add two-factor security to VPNs, Web applications or any system that supports [...]
Environmental impact of PhoneFactor
I was surfing the Blogosphere™ the other day and I ran across an interesting post about the environmental impact of the tokens used in other two-factor systems. While I can’t claim to have architected PhoneFactor with environmentalism in mind, I’m pleasantly surprised to note that PhoneFactor does seem to be relatively environmentally friendly. You see, [...]
