Authentication: Push


One of my goals before the end of the year is to protect my online accounts with multi-factor authentication. I’ve been protecting many of my identities with TOTP. TOTP is a great way to add multi-factor authentication to our identity.  It adds the “something I have” to the “something I know”. However, I’m now running… Continue reading Authentication: Push

Citrix Workspace Authentication: Overview


One of the major issues with the current state of the end user computing environment is the number of identities a user is required to remember.  Almost every service or application a user subscribes to requires the user create a new identity and password. With so many identities, almost all of us use the same… Continue reading Citrix Workspace Authentication: Overview

Authentication: TOTP


Let’s make one thing perfectly clear… TOTP ≠ OTP OTP = One-Time Password TOTP = Time-based One-Time Password As discussed in the Two-Step Verification post, OTP sends the one-time password to the user’s mobile phone via SMS or to the user’s email address. TOTP, on the other hand, uses a local app on the mobile… Continue reading Authentication: TOTP