What's new in Rohos Face Logon 5.3 Beta
Jan 7, 2024
- Improvements for Mifare RFID cards to support quick card swipe in some scenarios.
- Improvements on Azure workstation login via RDP to correctly reuse NLA credentials in some scenarios.
- Improved LDAP queries after LDAP_REFERRAL error code.
- Improved 1FA login possibility by using NLA credential for Remote Desktop access when user account have 2FA methods such as Yubikey, FIDO U2F, which in some cases lead to 2FA enforcement.
- Improvements for Mifare RFID Cards login method to use full-size card UID number.
- Added new option for 2FA bypass control feature – “Notify any successful login (2FA/1FA)” which will create push notification for Rohos Logon Key Android/iOS app in case of any login into your Server.
- Improved Emergency Login mode that now allows to use all possible login methods after a successful Questions/Answers procedure. You need to restart Windows after the Rohos Emergency Login procedure to access all possible credentials methods, such as Face Login, PIN code, etc, for normal login. These changes apply only for console based computer access.
New in Rohos Face Logon 4.9 (Mar 7, 2022)
- Emergency Login link can be removed from Login Screen icon.
- Rohos Logon Key keep audit trail even log for all operations perfomed in main application window such as creating/deleting 2FA keys, changing options and emergency login answers. Events added to Setup-User-Log.txt file.
- Other minor improvements in Google Authentication OTP 2FA method when using in Active Directory.
New in Rohos Face Logon 4.6 (Oct 2, 2020)
- Allows to setup and login by using different type of Authentication methods. This allows to combine 2FA devices and use a particular available device depending on use case: at home, work or remote desktop access.
- Improved MFA control for “Remote Desktop users from AD user group” rule.
- Fixed FIDO U2F implementation for long user names and long KeyHandle length (used in EsecuFIDO Thetis FIDO U2F BLE )
- Improved “Smartphone” MFA method (MFA Push token) to login into workstations joined to Active Directory.
- Added experimental support of 3rd party OTP verification services: added LinOTP verification protocol support.
- Improved password renewal support for AD networks.
New in Rohos Face Logon 4.3 (Feb 2, 2020)
- Added an option to control adaptivity level for face recognition.
- Added possibility to use Face Login over a remote desktop connection.
- Added option to control strong two-factor authentication to login into your computer.
- Added Emergency Logon feature to bypass two-factor authentication if you cant login by face.
- Added more options to customize Face Logon on logon screen.
- Option “Face models profile path” allows to change folder location where rohos keep biometric data. This allows to set centralized location or network shared folder for face models across multiple users and computers.
New in Rohos Face Logon 3.6 (Apr 13, 2018)
- Windows login with U2F FIDO security key
New in Rohos Face Logon 3.5 (Nov 3, 2017)
- Rohos now disables Windows 10 lock screen feature to speed-up authentication process. This eliminates the requirement to press any-key on a keyboard to close Lock screen picture.
- (Rohos modifies registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindowsPersonalization, NoLockScreen=1)
- Added support of RFID reades by RFIDeas.com. “Wave ID” pcProx, plus, nano, writer. Rohos uses RFIDeas API to read RFID tag serial number via USB connection. Keyboard output is not required. A great variety of 125 kHz cards are supported: HidProx, Indala, EM410x etc.
- Added network mode support for Active Directory networks. Now Rohos Logon Key automatically detects the presence of its database in Active Directory and switches to use domain-wide 2FA settings and 2FA devices controls which are set by using Rohos Management Tools installed on Domain Controller. A few improvement was made in Rohos
- Logon Key network mode:
- Custom “Wrong PIN”, “Wrong 2FA device” messages;
- Custom value for the Maximum number of wrong PIN attempts for 2FA devices like RFID tags;
- New option “RFID devices KCY/pcProx” was added to Rohos Remote Config;
- Auditing of all 2FA events, Emergency logons, Wrong PIN entries, etc.