Microsoft’s Best Kept Secret For IT Professionals

I’ve been using
Verisign VIP
for a while now with a hard token like the one seen below. It allows you to
add two-factor authentication to sites like
Ebay
and
PayPal.

But at
RSA 2009, which I just returned from, I found out Verisign has released a soft
token as well, and it works for all the main mobile platforms–including
iPhone. The app is
free from the app store, and here’s how it looks:

So you’re probably asking what all this works with. Well,
here’s a list
of supported websites:

These sites directly support Verisign VIP, which is really just an
OATH-based multi-factor authentication system.

This is cool, but the real reach of this system is that you can use your VIP
credential as a second factor to
pip.verisignlabs.com, which is Verisign’s
OpenID
implementation.

And that’s why I use Verisign for my OpenID system: it’s not only a solid
OpenID implementation, but it also allows me to use a token for two-factor
authentication. And now that they have a soft-token for the iPhone, it’s
even better.

I suggest you check it out. ::

Links

[
Verisign VIP (Two-Factor Auth) | verisign.com
][
Verisign PIP (OpenID) | verisignlabs.com
]