Product and Support News - Authentication

AuthPoint Inherited Users

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As a Service Provider, you might manage dozens of customer accounts and need access to your customers' systems and environments, such as a VPN or a server. With the user inheritance feature, you can request that customer accounts inherit an AuthPoint user from your account. These inherited users can...

AuthPoint Inherited Users Beta

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As a Service Provider, you might manage dozens of customer accounts and need access to your customer’s systems and environments, such as a VPN or a server. With the user inheritance feature, you can request that customer accounts inherit an AuthPoint user from your account. These inherited users can...

New AuthPoint Time Schedule Policy

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Earlier this year, we launched the AuthPoint Risk Framework, a powerful and flexible way to manage authentication policies. We are now happy to announce that we have launched the Time Schedule as a new type of policy. The Time Schedule policy enables you to specify the dates and times when...

New AuthPoint Time Schedule Policy Beta

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Earlier this year, we launched the AuthPoint Risk Framework, a powerful and flexible way to manage authentication policies. The latest AuthPoint beta focuses on time-based policy objects, which enable you to specify the dates and times when authentication policies apply to user authentications. You...

Released: New AuthPoint Self Service Portal Feature

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We are excited to announce that the Self-Service Portal feature is now available in AuthPoint! This feature gives the users autonomy to activate their own tokens, both mobile and hardware, by accessing their company’s IdP portal. Users that are enrolling for the first time and still do not have an...

New wizard available - import hardware tokens

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We are happy to announce the release of a new wizard on AuthPoint. The wizards provide a simple, step by step guide, to be followed by administrators to configure the MFA on their environment. The new wizard guides the administrator through the steps necessary to import hardware tokens into...

New AuthPoint Self-Service Portal Beta

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We are excited to announce that the Self-Service Portal feature is now available to beta test! This feature gives the users autonomy to activate their own tokens, both mobile and hardware, by accessing their company’s IdP portal. Users that are enrolling for the first time and still do not have an...

Released: AuthPoint Agent for macOS – Big Sur

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We are happy to announce the release of a new version of the AuthPoint Agent for macOS. This version has compatibility with the new Big Sur operating system, allowing Big Sur users to have MFA protection on both startup of the machine and after blocking it. Keep your machines always updated with the...

New AuthPoint Risk Framework

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We are happy to announce that we have launched the new AuthPoint Risk Framework in WatchGuard Cloud. The improved authentication policy management allows for more granularity and flexibility when creating rules for your users and resources. You also have now the option to create a policy to deny...

New AuthPoint Wizards: Making MFA as Simple as Possible

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We are happy to announce the release of Wizards on AuthPoint. The Wizards provide a simple, step by step guide, to be followed by administrators to configure the MFA on their environment. The following operations are available through Wizards: Get Started with AuthPoint – guides the administrator...