Two-factor Security

Well, I was introduced to a new way of doing Security for web hosted applications. It seems, with current state of IT security (or lack of - just ask Sony) and hacking attacks across the web, simple username/password isn't enough anymore. This is were two factor security comes into play. Basically, two-factor means there is more than one (at least two) to validate the user. The most common is username/password and then a challenge question(s). That is how my bank does it... but there is even cooler way. That is were Phone Factor comes in to play.

With Phone Factor you can easily setup your application to actually call and request a pin number from a user before allowing them entry. I've worked with their SDK and it takes about 5 minutes to get working!

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