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Spriv: Pairing Adaptive Two Factor Authentication

How Spriv links one specific phone with one specific username from one company: a pairing link is sent by SMS to the user's mobile phone, and the user pairs just by clicking it.

1:25 Published November 28, 2016 by Two Factor Authentication Spriv

What this video covers

  • Pairing links one specific phone with one specific username from one company.
  • An administrator sends the pairing link from Manage Users in the Spriv control panel.
  • The link can arrive by email or SMS; users can also pair manually in the app with a code from their administrator.
  • Every pairing link is single-use and expires after 72 hours. A link used twice shows "Invalid pairing code."
  • When pairing succeeds, a push notification on the phone confirms it. It only has to be done once.

About Spriv Adaptive Multi Factor Authentication

Spriv is a patented Adaptive Multi Factor Authentication platform. It verifies the second factor out-of-band and in the background, so a user signing in from a computer and location Spriv already trusts is not interrupted, while a login that looks abnormal still has to be approved on the paired phone.

The same platform covers Windows Remote Desktop (RDP), Linux and Unix PAM for SSH and sudo, and custom applications through a REST API. Adaptive MFA sits alongside Allow/Deny push, Two-Way SMS and TOTP, so every user keeps a way in when their phone has no signal.