Duo security and Teneo have teamed up to create cloud-based two-factor authentication to simplify employee’s access to work networks through their smart phone.

The new system will enable businesses to deploy a one-tap authentication via smartphones rather than using separate ID key fobs. Teneo will provide the Duo cloud solution to customer organisations worldwide as a managed service, with employees simply downloading the Duo Security mobile app to their

“Duo is an easy step to securing corporate access across all users, in any environment,” said Henry Seddon, VP EMEA at Duo Security. “Easy and effective solutions are key to ensuring trusted access across an entire organisation.”

Duo Security’s two-factor authentication solution works across a wide variety of PCs, Macs, laptops and mobile devices as well as Apple iOS, Google Android and Blackberry operating systems, providing a more flexible two-factor network authentication system.

“Duo Security ties in with Teneo’s ethos of bringing to market smarter software offerings that make business-critical tasks like security simpler and intuitive for IT teams and employees alike,” said Marc Sollars, CTO of Teneo. “Even now, many data security set-ups are difficult and represent a kind of rules-based drag on workplace productivity. Duo Security gives forward-thinking customers a simple way to make network access much easier and beef up their overall network security. This ‘one tap’ authentication will become crucial as today’s businesses become ever-more dependent on mobile devices and applications to compete”

Recent research has highlighted to the community that security continues to be an issue for enterprise, as employees would appear to be indifferent to security protocols. As the employees themselves are seemingly one of the greatest threats to the organization, making any security standards as simple as possible would appear to be a sensible strategy in shoring up an organizations perimeter.