{"id":4246,"date":"2015-06-19T08:10:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2015-06-18T22:13:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T04:13:31","slug":"specops-adds-multi-factor-authentication-for-self-service-password-resets-and-lockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/specops-adds-multi-factor-authentication-for-self-service-password-resets-and-lockouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Specops Adds Multi-Factor Authentication for Self-Service Password Resets and Lockouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Specops Adds Multi-Factor Authentication for Self-Service Password Resets and Lockouts<\/h2>\n<p>Resetting a forgotten or expired password has long been a task heaped on IT administrators to solve. Self-service mechanisms work pretty well, taking the burden off the IT staff from having to field these problems at the helpdesk many times a day. But, in today&#8217;s cautious security landscape, even a simple self-service password reset has the potential to expose the company to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>The major Cloud players today are implementing multi-factor authentication in an effort to prove that the customers are either human (not a bot) or that the person logging in is the actual individual they say they are. Multi-factor authentication can be configured to work a few different ways, but the most popular is delivering a SMS (text) confirmation code to a user&#8217;s mobile device that is then used to complete the verification on the web.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsitpro.com\/security\/specops-adds-multi-factor-authentication-self-service-password-resets-and-lockouts\" target=\"_blank\">Specops Adds Multi-Factor Authentication for Self-Service Password Resets and Lockouts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specops Adds Multi-Factor Authentication for Self-Service Password Resets and Lockouts Resetting a forgotten or expired password has long been a task heaped on IT administrators to solve. Self-service mechanisms work pretty well, taking the burden off the IT staff from having to field these problems at the helpdesk many times a day. But, in today&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,517,6,73,43],"tags":[392,1345,1185],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-space","category-mobile-identity-management","category-news","category-password-management","category-iam-identity-solutions","tag-iam-password","tag-iam-solutions","tag-password-reset"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-16u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}