Therefore, we invite you to attend the following online webinar:

“privacyIDEA & Passkeys” on May 7, 2026

In these free online event, we will show you how you can use passkeys in combination with privacyIDEA.

In addition, Cornelius Kölbel, Founder of privacyIDEA with more than 25 years of experience in the field of multi-factor authentication, will answer your questions.

Take advantage of this opportunity to gain new insights for your authentication project and get answers to your questions!

Dates & Time

• privacyIDEA and Passkeys (07.05.2026, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CEST)

Secure your spot and learn more about MFA with privacyIDEA!

Registration via: https://netknights.it/en/privacyidea-webinar-anmeldung/

Therefore, we invite you to attend the following online webinar:

“Offline Authentication with privacyIDEA” on April 9, 2026

In these free online event, we will show you how you can use privacyIDEA for offline authentication.

In addition, Cornelius Kölbel, Founder of privacyIDEA with more than 25 years of experience in the field of multi-factor authentication, will answer your questions.

Take advantage of this opportunity to gain new insights for your authentication project and get answers to your questions!

Dates & Time

• Offline Authentication with privacyIDEA (09.04.2026, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CEST)

Secure your spot and learn more about MFA with privacyIDEA!

Registration via: https://netknights.it/en/privacyidea-webinar-anmeldung/

Therefore, we invite you to attend the following online webinars:

“privacyIDEA as a replacement for DUO and Okta” on March 12 and “Management of SSH Keys with privacyIDEA” on March 24.

In these free online events, we will show you how you can use privacyIDEA to design your authentication processes flexibly, securely, and independently.

In addition, Cornelius Kölbel, Founder of privacyIDEA with more than 25 years of experience in the field of multi-factor authentication, will answer your questions.

Take advantage of this opportunity to gain new insights for your authentication project and get answers to your questions!

Dates & Time

• privacyIDEA as a Replacement for DUO and Okta (12.03.2026, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CET)
• SSH Key Management with privacyIDEA (24.03.2026, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CET)

Secure your spot and learn more about MFA with privacyIDEA!

Registration via: https://netknights.it/en/privacyidea-webinar-anmeldung/

Therefore, we invite you to attend our free online webinars:

“Central MFA with privacyIDEA” on February 10 and “privacyIDEA Basics” on February 26.

In these free online events, we will show you how you can use privacyIDEA to design your authentication processes flexibly, securely, and independently.

In addition, Cornelius Kölbel, Founder of privacyIDEA with more than 20 years of experience in the field of multi-factor authentication, will answer your questions.

Take advantage of this opportunity to gain new insights for your authentication project and get answers to your questions!

Dates & Time

• Central MFA with privacyIDEA (10.02.2026, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CET)
  
• privacyIDEA Basics (26.02.2026, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CET)
  

Secure your spot and learn more about MFA with privacyIDEA!

Registration via: https://netknights.it/en/privacyidea-webinar-anmeldung/

Therefore, we invite you to attend our free online events

“Central MFA with privacyIDEA” on August 19 or 28 and “privacyIDEA – Your replacement for DUO and OKTA” on September 16.

In these free online events, we will show you how you can use privacyIDEA to design your authentication processes flexibly, securely, and independently.

In addition, Cornelius Kölbel, CEO of NetKnights with more than 15 years of experience in the field of multi-factor authentication, will personally answer your questions.

Take advantage of this opportunity to gain new insights for your authentication project and get answers to your questions!

Dates & Time

19 August, Central MFA with privacyIDEA, 3 pm-3:45 pm Central European Time

28 August, Central MFA with privacyIDEA, 7pm-7:45 pm Central European Time

16 September, privacyIDEA – Your replacement for DUO and OKTA, 7 pm-7:45 pm Central European Time

Secure your free spot and learn more about MFA with privacyIDEA!

Registration via: https://netknights.it/privacyidea-webinar-registration

We look forward to your participation. If you have any further questions about the webinars, do not hesitate to contact us via marketing@netknights.it

Multi-Factor-Authentication is nowadays known to a lot of people and used at many different places. MFA is meant to secure the user logins. MFA is in the news. You should not use SMS, this is weak. You should not trust your smartphone. Passwords are evil. Go passwordless! Use FIDO2 – this is secure!

But if it is not only about you as an end user using multi factor authentication but about providing it, if you are responsible for rolling 2nd factors to the employees in your organization, to your customer or to any user group, then you are faced with a lot of organizational challenges, which are quite different then discussing about which 2nd factor is the best.

How can you ship hardware tokens to the users in a timely and secure manner? How can users enroll their smartphone, without any secrets being compromised? How can you integrate modern technologies like FIDO2? Is it possible to use FIDO2 in your situation at all? How can you handle lost 2nd factors with the least effort for the users?

Cornelius Kölbel will give a talk about these aspects at the Ohio Linux Fest. His talk will be online in a zoom meeting on Saturday November 7th at 12am EST. To join, you need to register at the Ohio Linux.

At the same time privacyIDEA provides several different ways to migrate existing 2FA system to privacyIDEA. This is important, since proprietary systems tend to go end of life.

privacyIDEA Talk at SCALE 18x

Cornelius will be giving a talk at SCALE 18x about where 2FA or MFA is going and what we might expect from the old key players.

privacyIDEA can easily help you to get rid of old vendor locks once and for all. privacyIDEA aims to be future proof. Not only do we support Python 3! but we also keep up with new developments in the authentication market. privacyIDEA provides a lot of different authentication types like U2F (FIDO2), HOTP/TOTP, SMS or PUSH notifications. This talk will give an insight of the pros and cons, which you need to know to find the right auth type for your scenario.

If you are around, stop by at the Southern California Linux Expo at the Convention Center in Pasadena on March 5th-8th, 2020.

Read more

Update: The talk will be held on March 8th in the Security track, 3pm – 4pm.

A lot of Interesting talks

The conference started on Friday. There were several professional training tracks and one track with talks. Although I am involved into PKI and certificates with Linux for a while, there is always something new, some other aspects, different angles to find. So now I got some insperiation where to look at by the “Linux PKI System Parts” talk. How new junior developers could be integrated into your team was elaborated on in “They don’t make ’em like they used to: Integrating Junior Developers into your team“.

On Saturday there were five parallel tracks and it was sometimes difficult to decide where to go.

I have not been looking actively into Samba for quite a while. I know Samba started with Heimdal kerberos. Back then this was a petty, since Heimdahl would not play nicely with 2FA. The MIT Kerberos allowed to pass the Authentication Request to a RADIUS server thus adding 2FA into the kinit process. I talked about this in 2013 in my Kerberos talk. Well, in Columbus I learned in the Samba talk, that you can run Samba > 4.7 also with MIT. Welcome 2FA!

Although I am not a DB admin I like to hear talks about databases – hoping to learn something. Most of the time I learn, that I am really no DB admin The talk about “Slow MySQL database session analysis” gave a lot of entertaining insights, how you could find slow database queries in large setups, so you would know, where optimization has to occur.

The talk “Personal Online Security, Privacy, and Password Management” was filled with distinct tips and and tricks what to do and which tools to use to improve your personal online security. A lot to digest!

The last talk of the day “Beyond Zero Trust” addressed the same topic but in a more general or maybe even philosophical approach. Some good thinking to conclude the day.

A lot of interesting talking

In between talks, during lunch at the hang out time in the evening the time was filled with a lot of personal talking. I have been to the Ohio Linuxfest the first time but felt very at home. Because everywhere people were interested in exchanging ideas and communicating. To me this was really distinctive compared to other conference I have been in the U.S., Germany, The Netherlands, Austria or Denmark. I have got dry lips during these days. This never happened on Linux conferences before (Might be the air condition

Great organization

I also liked the organization a lot. Speakers were greeted warmly and the night before the conference. The organizers always took care, that you would know where to go… even after the official hours (Thanks Warner!

The venue in the Hyatt Regency Hotel is a very good spot. Diner, lunch and the cocktail bar is outstanding. And this is maybe the point: You do not have to worry about life support issues. So there is a lot more time for talking.

A big thanks to the OLF staff! I can only recommend the Ohio Linuxfest to anyone!

privacyIDEA is the Open Source Two Factor solution that runs at a central location in your network and can work as the 2FA instance for all your applications. privacyIDEA provides plugins for several applications directly (like WordPress, ownCloud, TYPO3, django, contao…) but also has plugins to serve standart authentication protocols like PAM, RADIUS, SAML2 and OpenID Connect.

You have the chance to use privacyIDEA everywhere – with every application.

Cornelius will give a talk about how privacyIDEA can be integrated with your preferred application at the Ohio Linuxfest in Columbus, Ohio. Your preferred application can be either connected via the before mentioned protocols or via the privacyIDEA REST API. In this talk you can learn, how this can be achieve to use a secure login with your own or preferred application.

Cornelius will give a talk about two factor authentication, proprietary software and mergers and acquisitions in Dornbirn at the upcoming weekend, Saturday 19th.

In this talk he will point out, how proprietary solutions not only can keep you stuck with a software, that is discontinued in development and will not get any further bug fixes. But in addition you might be able to not enroll any further second factors for your users.

The solution is easy. Go for enterprise ready Open Source. Like privacyIDEA.

Join us in Dornbirn, Austria!

Read more about the talk (German).

You can also find a blog post about the M&A problem with closed source in the company blog of NetKnights GmbH.