NetKnights in search of new colleagues
Once a year, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kassel organizes a company fair. NetKnights used this opportunity to exchange ideas with interested students.
New user interface and simplified configuration of push tokens
IT security company NetKnights releases version 4.0 of its privacyIDEA Authenticator app. The latest version includes simplified push token configurations, improved stability and a new user interface.
NetKnights host second internal unconference
In the middle of the Harz mountains, the NetKnights set up camp to discuss organizational and technical topics.
Multi-Factor-Authentication at the Windows desktop – also on the road
As of today the privacyIDEA Credential Provider is available in version 3.2. The offline functionality in regards to multiple users and multiple tokens was improved.
Multi-Factor-Authentication privacyIDEA version 3.7 released
IT security company NetKnights releases version 3.7 of its professional
multi-factor authentication software privacyIDEA.
This provides reliable offline logon to Windows notebooks.
In addition, the administrator can now ensure that users do not forget
to scan the QR code with their smartphone when self-enrolling an OTP token.
As of today the new version is available via the Python Package Index and
in the community repositories for Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04 and 20.04.
privacyIDEA simpleSAMLphp Plugin 2.1.1 available
The version 2.1.1 of the privacyIDEA simpleSAMLphp Plugin is available.
The administrator can configure when and how often a user is asked to provide his second factor.
WebAuthn as a second factor for ownCloud
The new version of the privacyIDEA ownCloud plugin now supports WebAuthn and privacyIDEA’s multi-challenge method.
Single Sign-On at UCS and WebAuthn
The IT security company NetKnights announces version 2.0 of the privacyIDEA 2FA plugin for single sign-on at the Univention Corporate Server.
With the new version, users can now also securely log in to the Univention Corporate Server with U2F and WebAuthn tokens.
NetKnights at Castle to hold un-conference
In July, the NetKnights staff went to a castle in Saxony-Anhalt to discuss topics that are not very concrete, don’t have their own Github Issue, or maybe are just still a crank.
Multi-Factor Authentication privacyIDEA version 3.6 released
The release 3.6 of privacyIDEA opens the possibility to manage additional user attributes within privacyIDEA. Based on these, administrators can define policies for additional permissions. In addition, a new feature in privacyIDEA 3.6 is that administrators can now also use arbitrary token attributes as conditions in policies. These are additional ways that administrators can control privacyIDEA properties and define users’ permissions.