The need for your users to access your network and your need for security on your network can sometimes be at odds. This is where User Authentication strategies and policies come together to satisfy your security needs yet still allow your users to have access to the data on the network. Flat Earth implements multi-factor authentication, meaning the use of two or more methods (known as “factors”) of validating the identity of users.

Authentication factors generally fall into one of three primary areas:

1. What the user knows as a secret (password, PIN, etc.).
2. What the user possesses, such as a physical token (I.D. card) or a digital token (unique, time-sensitive passcode sent to a user’s mobile phone).
3. What the user is, such as biometric data of a fingerprint or facial geometry.

Flat Earth recommends using multiple factors as opposed to one factor because they generally deliver a higher level of authentication assurance – giving our clients a high-degree of confidence in the management of user authentication.