Nexcess, a managed hosting company of Southfield Michigan, in collaboration with Human Element Magento development agency, has announced the release their Sentry Magento plug-in, which will provide authentication capabilities to two factors to one of the most popular e-commerce solutions worldwide.
Out-of-the-box, Magento provides protection mechanisms in strong password, but salting and hashing passwords databases is not enough if Magento administrators do not choose sufficiently strong passwords and keep them safe, according Nexcess. The company says that having a username and password as the only authentication mechanism is simply no longer enough
Passwords can be considered as a factor authentication :. Something the user knows. Sentry add a second factor: something the user . Leveraging the ubiquity of smartphones and other mobile devices, two authentication factors integrations Sentry will require that users enter a limited time code generated by an application. Without access to authenticated devices, malicious third party will not be able to access back end of Magento, even if they are able to guess the password.
Sentry Nexcess plugin and the Human Element integrate Magento with the most popular providers of authentication services to two factors including Google Authenticator and Duo Security, providing an extra level of protection and making it more difficult for criminals to violate Magento stores.
server- side seat
"as Magento managed hosting company, we go to great lengths to keep our clients' data and customer data safe, but the weak password problem is not that we can simply solve with better server-side security, "said Chris Wells, President and CEO of Nexcess . "the best way to make safe passwords is to add an additional authentication factor that links the identity with an object in the hands of users. the Sentry plugin will allow Magento e-commerce retailers themselves -Same and keep their customers safe. "
Founded in 00, Nexcess has data centers across the US, Europe and Australia.
With sites in Ann Arbor and Portland, Human Element working to develop web solutions for high transaction web sites using the platform Magento Enterprise eCommerce. Human Element claims to be one of the fastest custom application development agencies increasingly Michigan.
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