Set up Two-Factor Authentication for Your Hosting cPanel
Two-Factor Authentication 2FA for cPanel
Overview
Two-Factor Authentication 2FA is essential to web security because it immediately neutralises the risks associated with compromised passwords. If a password is hacked, guessed, or even phished, that’s no longer enough to give an intruder access: without approval at the second factor, a password alone is useless.
Protect your website, your business, your hosting, by enabling 2FA on your hosting cPanel.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security measure that requires two forms of identification.
After you enter your password, you must enter a security code. An application on your smartphone supplies this code. Without your smartphone, you cannot log in.
Notification if someone tries to access your account
Having a 2FA on an account will alert you instantly if anyone else tries to access your account.
To enable Two-Factor Authentication on your hosting cPanel (Control Panel) account:
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- Firstly Log in to your account. If you can’t locate your original documentation upon sign-up of your hosting account, there is a login link on the bottom of your annual hosting invoice. Failing that, please call us at Living Host or Living Web Design to assist you.
- Have your 2FA phone app ready
Two Factor Authentication 2FA requires a smartphone with a supported time-based one-time password (TOTP) app. We suggest the following apps:
- For Android™, iOS®, and Blackberry® — Google Authenticator™
- For Android and iOS — Duo Mobile
- For Windows® Phone — Authenticator
- When logged into your cPanel, navigate to the SECURITY SECTION – and click on to Two-Factor Authentication and follow the prompts to scan the QR code with your Authenticator App and then enter the Six Digit Code.
If you need any further information about enabling 2FA on your hosting account, please contact Living Web Design today on 08 8242 5932
