The American Foundation for the Blind recently commenced a pilot telecommuting program for about a third of its 120 employees. However, because the AFB has many blind employees, typical VPN authentication methods that rely on visual passwords just weren’t feasible, explains Kelly Bleach, the AFB’s chief IT officer.
Additionally, the organization found that simple password authentication wasn’t secure enough for its needs. “It’s easy for people to get passwords or find other people’s passwords,” says Bleach. “For anyone to access our network remotely, we wanted them to have a physical device [as well as] a password because a physical device makes it harder to get in unless you are really the authorized person.”
Fortunately, Bleach found PhoneFactor by Positive Networks (www.positivenetworks.com), which provides Bleach’s employees with two-factor authentication that her blind employees can also use. “It’s a matter of answering the phone and pressing the # key. It really solved everything,” Bleach says.
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