As mentioned several times on the Shockey Monkey mailing list, towards the end of the year you will have an option to run Shockey Monkey on your own network (we will distribute a VM so you can have your data on your own network instead of on our hosted servers). It has been a huge area of interest by the partners that wanted total control over their data and did not want it “in the cloud”

So along the same path, I am talking to Dana Epp about potentially integrating Dana’s AuthAnvil two-factor authentication with Shockey Monkey. Basically, in addition to the username and password authentication to gain access to the portal you will also be be prompted for an OTP (one-time-password) to gain administrative or staff access to the system. The big idea? You would be assured that only the users with an authentication token (aka fob, aka hardware token) can gain administrative access to your Shockey Monkey deployment.

If there is interest in this please let me know. Depending on the interest, it would either be your server or our server as far as the AuthAnvil server is concerned – same thing we currently do for mapping, MSN and Google Maps integration – you are asked to provide your Google Services key or MSN uid/pw… and consequently an AuthAnvil server to authenticate against.

If you are interested (in particular, IF you already have AuthAnvil server deployed in your organization) I would like to explore the possibility of providing this. Things are pretty easy with Shockey Monkey so it wouldn’t take a lot of resources to get it done but there are a lot of features that people want in and only so much Vlad to go around.

So, got AuthAnvil? Want it to work with Shockey Monkey? Let me know. I am easy to find.

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