{"id":802,"date":"2016-01-27T13:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/us\/2016\/01\/27\/2fa-two-factor-authentication\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T11:48:20","slug":"2fa-two-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/blog\/2fa-two-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"New Feature: Two-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are happy to announce that UpCloud customers can now enable two-factor authentication on their accounts. Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security through random passwords that are generated specifically for your username and are only valid for a limited time. This way if someone was to gain access to your username and password, they would not be able to log in without this time-sensitive code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We strongly recommend all customers to take advantage of this feature. There is no cost attached to two-factor authentication and it is freely available today for all accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We chose a technology called Time-based One-time Password Algorithm (more commonly referred to as TOTP), due to the widespread adoption of it and support through multiple different mobile applications on all major platforms. You can see a list of these apps with direct links in the UpCloud Control Panel next to the QR-code (User Accounts under My Account). Google Authenticator is perhaps the most widely spread with support for Android, iPhone and Blackberry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While enabling this functionality is very intuitive, head over to our support section for any questions you may have on <a href=\"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/resources\/tutorials\/two-factor-authentication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how to enable two-factor authentication on UpCloud<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><small><em>Photo: Security by Dave Bleasdale, via Flickr<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/signup.upcloud.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/media\/Upcloud-cta-2-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"Call to action regarding signing up for UpCloud's free trial.\" class=\"wp-image-10919\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that UpCloud customers can now enable two-factor authentication on their accounts. Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"325,163,97,661,481,160","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Blocked by a filter function","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upcloud.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}