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+ | ======Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)====== | ||
+ | ==last updated on: Aug. 20, 2020== | ||
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+ | The Enterprise File Fabric supports two-factor authentication. This can also be referred to as two-step verification or dual factor authentication. | ||
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+ | 2FA is a security process in which the user provides two different authentication factors to verify themselves to better protect both the user's credentials and the resources the user can access. | ||
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+ | If 2FA is turned then users first login with their password before and are then issued a secondary authentication challenge. | ||
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+ | Two Factor Authentication can be turned on for all of a File Fabric organization' | ||
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+ | The File Fabric supports three types of 2FA. Select the type you want to use from the pulldown menu: | ||
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+ | ===Email=== | ||
+ | On each login attempt the user will be have to enter a timed one-time password. | ||
+ | ===Phrase=== | ||
+ | On each login attempt the user will be challenged to enter a phrase that he has associated with his account for this purpose. | ||
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+ | If you have selected the " | ||
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+ | Other members of the org. will be prompted to set up their phrases the next time each logs in to the File Fabric. | ||
+ | ===Authenticator App (TOTP)=== | ||
+ | On each login attempt the user will be have to enter a timed one-time password (TOTP) that has been generated by an app such as Google Authenticator on her phone. | ||
+ | If you have selected " | ||
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+ | scan with an authentication application the QR code that appeared on the Security web page or make note of the | ||
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+ | The steps required to coOnce turned on users will have to login as normal and will then receive the second challenge. This will work from web, desktop and mobile apps. |