WP Engine, a WordPress web hosting company founded in 2010 and is currently powering 42,000 customers, announced the introduction of two factor authentication for their user portal, adding an extra level of security for all managed web hosting clients.
Recognizing that businesses need more sophisticated solutions for protecting their digital identities, WP Engine frees the two-factor authentication to promote the many security features of its WordPress hosting Web platform services. two-factor authentication help prevent unauthorized third parties to access customer sites and potentially harm their business. In addition, this feature ensures that even if a user's password is compromised, their account remains safe as long as the second factor remains out of reach to the attacker.
"two-factor authentication gives site administrators the peace of mind," said Eric Murphy, director of security at WP Engine.
"Because businesses of our customers live on the Web, security has always been a major concern for WP Engine," said Eric Murphy, director of security at WP Engine . "Today, we are taking additional measures to ensure customer sites and customer data is secure without impacting the high quality service and functionality. We are delighted to deploy this new functionality to our customers, because the two-factor authentication provides peace of mind to the website administrators, allowing privileged users to access while keeping unauthorized intruder. "
Two-factor authentication requires a second factor (beyond a password) to access the account. With this application, a user attempts to connect to their engine WP managed account not only need to enter their password and also enter a generated code that changes every 30 seconds to access the WP Engine user portal displays. WP Engine is using Authenticator implementation for authentication to two factors on hosted sites.
Founded in 2010, WP Engine grew alongside WordPress, one of the content management systems the most popular on the Internet. WordPress, introduced 12 years ago, would now supply nearly a quarter (23 percent) of the band. WP Engine currently supports more 300,000 WordPress sites and applications in 128 countries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, WP Engine has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas and London, England.
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