Passwordless Authentication with IDmelon
If you love being techy and you eat or have tasted watermelon before, then I’m sure that the name IDmelon will leave an impression on you. IDmelon is a Canadian firm whose primary focus has been exploring and creating authentication technologies based on Bluetooth and FIDO2 since 2016. Their platform enables organizations to easily and quickly implement secure passwordless authentication for their users. What makes them “thick” is the fact that you can manage and monitor new and existing keys from a central point. This is achieved through the specialized panel that is tailored to lower the operational costs of managing keys and accelerate project completion. Most importantly, minimize the need for personnel to implement and maintain the system. Well, we know of Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a service, Software as a Service and others but with IDmelon, it’s Security key as a Service.
The Good thing about IDmelon is that you can use your smartphone in the place of a security key. Windows 10 and Windows 11 (Azure AD joined) and macOS 11.4 or later are both well supported with IDmelon Pairing Tool. Your smartphone should also have the IDmelon app loaded.
In this article, I shall be walking you through all the required steps to create an admin account and how users can be authenticated and be up and running passwordless using IDmelon.
Step1: Create a workspace
1a. Create an Admin account by filling in the required details
1b. Hit on the continue button and you will have the opportunity to verify using a code sent to the email that you registered with just like in the screenshot below.
1c. enter the code sent to your email into the box
1d. Next, you will be prompted to register your phone
1e. You will be asked to verify the number you added to the step above
1f. The phone verification will be redirected to your company’s own workspace where will be required to add your company’s URL and name.
1g. Fill in the required information and hit on the continue button
At this point, you have successfully created a workspace for your organization check your email for a confirmation.
Step2: You will be required to create a security key using the email provided.
2a. You will receive a QR code that you will have to scan using a smartphone.
Step3: Download IDmelon Authenticator from the Google play store
3a. You will get a confirmation with a prompt to accept or deny just like the one below
Approved and we are ready to use the workspace
3b. Explore your workspace
User management
We can even import users directly from Azure active directory as shown below
We can choose to add users manually and send as shown below
Users can also be added from a CSV file as shown below
Summary
In order to increase the security of websites and applications, IDmelon facilitates the adoption of passwordless authentication and the platform is very easy to use. You can do so by following the steps in the article.
