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One way to increase the security of computer systems is to use multiple factors for authentication. Typically, this will be two factors and follows the pattern of authenticating with a "knowledge" factor, which is something you know, like a password, and a "possession" factor, which is something that you have. The latter is typically a key or one time password often generated by a device. In the near future we will be implementing We have implemented a two factor authentication system for the HPC resources. The technology that has been chosen is called Duo from Duo Security. This is the same technology that was deployed for the University of Iowa Employee Self Service site.

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