Acquired "Microsoft" leading software world on the company "PhoneFactor" specialized in providing solutions and endorsements multiple security factors for the protection and security of data and information and provide different ways to allow customers access to programs and services Home without relying solely on the security codes and passwords.
The aim of the acquisition by the company "Microsoft" to provide security solutions and endorsements that are effective and easy settings for cloud computing services to enhance security standards both for customers, partners or developers, and that, according to the "Bharat Shah" director servers and tools at Microsoft.
As name suggests the company "PhoneFactor" which was established in 2001, it specializes in providing services additional security during the authentication process involves asking for more security settings when you log on through a phone call or a text message or a particular application, called (authentication or documenting multi factors), unlike traditional authentication process currently approved only on the user name and password, which are known as (single factor authentication).
Authentication means "Authentication" strict security settings to verify the user's identity and make sure the powers has owned the possibility of arriving to some or all of the resources and services.
It is noteworthy that a company "PhoneFactor" since its inception and provides security services and endorsements for many governmental institutions and the role of health care and banking services, along with large enterprises and web applications, etc., as well as provide security solutions for many of the services Microsoft, including the protection of account operations unauthorized access or as a binder "Outlook Web Access" as well as the service "Active Directory" a database of all resources of the World Wide Web and Web services and users.
Did not reveal any of the parties on the financial value of the deal or any of its terms.
