The most effective way to protect your employees or users is through the use of Joomla Two Factor Authentication. Passwords are everywhere, we use them to access anything and everything. At first, we used one password for everything but that wasn’t good enough so we started making our passwords more complicated with a combination of numbers, uppercase/lowercase letters & even special characters. Many people use password managers to organize dozens or hundreds of unique passwords. But no matter how complex your password or the password management system is, it is still sometimes not enough to prevent account takeover, because all it takes is one simple phishing email or database breach and your password is out in the world. So, if passwords are impossible to protect, how do you protect your account?

Among the secure methods for a user to control sites, two-factor authentication is used widely because it is easily adopted and has high compatibility in a cost-effective manner. miniOrage provides a secure two-factor authentication mechanism plugin for multiple platforms (Joomla, WordPress, Atlassian, Drupal, Magento & Moodle) which adds an extra layer of security to your company’s databases and website. Through these plugins, you will get access to several authentication methods that can restrict the user’s credentials from being shared with anyone, on purpose, or by accident.

When the user enters his/her correct username and password they are prompted with a second-factor authentication page, in order to login successfully. We offer 15+ authentication methods which include OTP over Email, OTP over SMS, hardware token, QR code authentication, Google authenticator, etc.

That’s where two-factor authentication comes in. Using Two Factor Authentication adds another method of identity verification to secure your accounts. By combining your username and password with the second method your account becomes extremely secure and almost impossible for an attacker to pass through, even if they have your password.