privacyIDEA 2.21 with a more secure smartphone enrollment
Today privacyIDEA 2.21 was released. Read about it on the privacyIDEA project page. With privacyIDEA 2.21 it will be possible to enroll smartphone based tokens in a more secure manner and mitigate the threat of simply copying the QR code of the enrolled token. NetKnights still runs a beta test of a new smartphone app. […]
privacyIDEA Authenticator – the better smartphone factor
The smartphone is our daily tool and the digital copy of our own identity. This is not the place to discuss the social implications. We just state the fact. The Smartphone as the second factor Due to this fact many organisations and companies like to use smartphones for a security improved authentication process. The smartphone […]
Transaction signature and federated authentication with privacyIDEA4UCS 2.20.1
The privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition version 2.20.1 is now available for Univention Corporate Server. You can install or update privacyIDEA 2.20.1 on the UCS easily from the Univention App Center. Please note that the subscription handling was changed in privacyIDEA4UCS. You now no longer need a special license file but the common subscription file, which is […]
privacyIDEA 2.20.1 Enterprise Edition released
Today we released the stable version 2.20.1 of the privacyIDEA Enterprise Edition. The Enterprise Edition as version 2.X.1 is released a few weeks after the corresponding major public release and contains necessary bug fixes. We already wrote about version 2.20. Version 2.20.1 now fixes some minor bugs: When using PostgreSQL database the administrator can now […]
Federated authentication with privacyIDEA 2.20
Today we released privacyIDEA 2.20. Packages are publically available in the Laundpad repositories for Ubuntu 14.04LTS and 16.04LTS. You can also install the new version via the Python Package Index on any other distribution. New Features in privacyIDEA Federation-Handler The new federation handler allows to forward authentication requests to sibling privacyIDEA instances. This way you can setup network […]
Welcome dialog and privacyIDEA subscription
privacyIDEA is enterprise software. Managing lots of authentication devices for lots of users is a task that occurs in a company network. privacyIDEA is licensed under an Open Source license. This guarantees, that a company using the Open Source software privacyIDEA can use this software for life. In contrast prorpietary software or software-as-a-service (SaaS) can […]
World Wide Web Consortium is enrolling 2FA using privacyIDEA
Kassel, September, 26th 2017. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is implementing privacyIDEA for securing access to their infrastructure with a second factor. The privacyIDEA Authentication System was chosen due to its flexible nature and the possibility to allow a single sign on experience for the users. The services and especially the users are distributed […]
Securing bank transactions with privacyIDEA
Making wiring money secure is a big challenge. We are all grateful, that we no longer need to go to the bank institute for wiring money to another bank account. It is also great that we do not need to use these TAN lists anymore, when we were asked to cross out number by number […]
About Enterprise File Encryption
This article was first published at owncloud. Your Data is at risk. And thus is your personal life and your company’s values. You avoid hackers, trade espionage and rogue governments getting your data by using your own cloud storage like ownCloud. Your data under your control. But depending on where your storage is located some […]
privacyIDEA Appliance, UCS, LDAP-Proxy, FrOSCon und it-sa
privacyIDEA Appliance Our enterprise customers may now install and configure privacyIDEA as a privacyIDEA appliance, based on the Ubuntu 16.04 enterprise packages. This way customers get an additional flover in addition to the python package index, CentOS, RHEL, Debian and Ubuntu for running and maintaining privacyIDEA. The Appliance allows easy setup of MySQL Master-Master-Replication, RADIUS […]