Many businesses this week will have no doubt lost thousands if not millions of pounds worth of business due to the disruption caused by the recent snow fall. No doubt many workers struggled by working from home with limited or no access to data systems.

One way to allow employees to securely access data systems remotely is to deploy a two factor based system. Celo Remote - a sms 2 factor solution from Commerce Media is specifically designed to allow remote workers to login securely to systems which are held centrally by organisations.

Celo Remote relies on something you know, typically a users standard username and password and something you have,which is an employees own mobile phone. Once a user enters their username and password, a one time passcode is sent to the users mobile phone. The user then keys in this time limited code. Access is gained to the system if it verifies the user to be genuine.

The cost of deploying this type of system is remarkably cost effective compared to a token based system. Token based systems are typically double the price of soultions such as Celo Remote. Token based systems also require much more adminstrative resource compared to tokenless sms 2 factor solutions. Thus saving time as well as money.

With the cold weather set to continue isn’t it about time your organisation considered inplementing a tokenless sms 2factor solution to allow your employees to securely login to you data systems so you’ll be able to say theres snow disruption here too!!

Tags: 2FA, celo, Celo Remote, two-factor authentication