Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security system that requires two distinct forms of identification to access your account. The first factor is a password, and the second commonly includes a text with a code sent to your smartphone or e-mail inbox. This extra security measure prevents people from accessing your account when they somehow managed to obtain your password. They would still need to enter the second factor, which is the security code to login to Qbil-Trade.
In short, the two-factor authentication is used to strengthen the security of your account in Qbil-Trade and we highly recommend applying it to each created user account.
The two-factor authentication works as follows in Qbil-Trade:
- A Qbil-Trade user with administrator rights enables the two-factor authentication for a user.
- The administrator will check the box for each user that requires 2FA on their next login and presses ‘save’.
- Upon logging in, the user(s) will now be provided with a QR code that needs to be scanned with the “Google Authenticator” app or a similar app on a mobile phone device.
- After the code has been scanned the user can log out. This is a one time process to complete.
- A time-limited one-time password will be generated in the Google Authenticator app (or alternative). When the user logs in again, they will need to provide this one-time password after entering the password to log in successfully.
There is a checkbox to ‘remember this device’. When checking this checkbox, there is no need to provide the one-time password for the next 12 hours and you can log in simply by entering the password for that length of time.
By using the 2FA solution, there is no need to change a password periodically and it will strengthen the overall security.
