Authentication

We are happy to announce that AuthPoint Gateway v5.3.1 was just launched, adding support for RADIUS MSCHAPv2 authentications to Active Directory. This means that you can now create IKEv2 VPNs, authenticating users to Active Directory, using AuthPoint as your MFA solution.

Why IKEv2?

• IKEv2 is the most secure VPN option available today
• It is natively available on Windows, macOS, and iOS, and it is easily used among Android users with apps such as StrongSwan
• For Firebox customers, being IPSec-based, IKEv2 can take advantage of crypto acceleration available on Firebox appliances...

New features and functionalities are being revealed with our AuthPoint Beta Program. Check out some of those:

• AuthPoint Authentication APIs Beta ended and is now publicly available, and for no additional cost in your AuthPoint license! See how easy it is to integrate AuthPoint’s MFA technology with your web portal or home applications

• AuthPoint Agent for MacOS v1.7 Beta started this week, and it now supports Catalina. Check it out!

• AuthPoint Agent for Windows Beta is getting a new refresh in the next few days. It provides easier distribution and optional login without MFA for defined...

We are excited to announce that the AuthPoint Authentication API is now available to beta test! The Authentication API is a new service that you can use to add the protection of AuthPoint multi-factor authentication (MFA) directly into your custom applications, using RESTful API calls.

Would you like to quickly add MFA to your Web portal? Maybe add Push, QR Code or OTP (one-time password) authentication into your home developed application?

With the AuthPoint Authentication API, you will be able to:

• Authenticate a user with a time-based OTP
• Generate a customized authentication...

AuthPoint capabilities continuously improve, and a host of new features were recently added that make our MFA solution even more flexible, easy to manage, and secure. The latest enhancements include:

• AuthPoint Gateway HA - Gives customers full high availability (HA) of on-premises services such as RADIUS and AD authentication. With this feature, users can have one primary gateway and up to 5 other gateways in the location of their choice. If the first goes down, the next one will take over automatically ensuring high availability for authentication services.
• Backup and Restore for Mobile...

We are excited to announce the availability of our newest user-focused security service, DNSWatchGO. WatchGuard DNSWatchGO provides DNS-level protection and content filtering that keeps your business safe from phishing, ransomware, and other attacks even when your user is outside of the network, without requiring a VPN.

Key Features

• DNS-level detection, providing an additional layer of security to block connections to the bad guys
• Automatically protects end users from phishing attacks and C2 connections
• Enables content filtering by user or group with 120 pre-defined blocking...

If you use AuthPoint, your AuthPoint Gateway software must be updated to the latest available version (v5.1.5) by 10 October 2019 (APAC cloud region users), by 16 October 2019 (EMEA region), and by 17 October 2019 (AMER region) in order to avoid an outage in your service. If you do not update your AuthPoint Gateway before this time, all users who try to use AuthPoint to authenticate will experience a failure.

Please read the Knowledge Base article for more information and to get detailed upgrade instructions.

AuthPoint Gateway version 5 with High Availability support is now available to beta test!

This new version supports two main features:

You can now configure and install secondary Gateways to provide high availability for LDAP user authentication. If your primary Gateway is not available, AuthPoint automatically sends LDAP user authentications through the secondary Gateway until the primary Gateway becomes available again. You can have the primary Gateway and up to 5 additional secondary Gateways.

For RADIUS client resources, you can now choose to send the Active Directory group for...

We’re excited to announce that the AuthPoint agent for RD Web is now available!

This agent allows users to enforce MFA when connecting to remote applications using Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access application (RD Web). It integrates with the AuthPoint Web SSO functionality, so if you login into AuthPoint's IdP, you will automatically login to RD Web as well. It also supports safe locations, allowing users to configure dedicated locations in which MFA is not required to access those remote applications.

It’s quick to set up. Simply follow the installation and configuration...

The AuthPoint Agent for RD Web is entering its second week of Beta! Have you tried it yet?

What is it? The AuthPoint agent for RD Web allows users to enforce MFA when connecting to remote applications using Microsoft’s remote desktop web application (RD Web). It also supports safe locations, allowing users to configure dedicated locations in which MFA is not required to access those remote applications.

How can you help? Sign up to Centercode, and join our Beta: https://watchguard.centercode.com/key/RDWeb.

As a reminder, the AuthPoint Agent for Windows v2.0 Beta is still running, with...

AuthPoint Agent for Windows is getting a new look and feel!

What does this change?

This beta kicks off the release of the redesigned version of the AuthPoint Agent for Windows, which will have the same look and feel as the agent for MacOS. When Windows users log in, AuthPoint sign-in options (e.g. push) will appear on a new screen after the user enters in a username and password. This is different from the current Windows logon in which the sign-in options appear on the same screen as the Windows logon screen. ​

Exciting new features with the new Agent!

• Support for RDP connections...