¶ PVY-ID | Getting started
Authentication for access to Apps & Services should be easy and secure. PVY-ID is your Personal Private Cloud Single-Sign-On Service for almost all of the PVYapps on your own custom domain. It not only works on our Web Apps, but also for our Desktop and Mobile apps.
The PVY-ID is assigned to each user on Signup for any PVY@Cloud subscription, on registering a PVY@Home or PVY@Office Appliance and automatically when a new user is created by your Sys Admin.
The admin user can then add on PVYcentral more users for his business or his family. We have only two flags, user, or admin user, where last one ensure that he can add and manage user.
¶ Password Management
Each user can change the given password of their PVY-ID (their email address) by themself within the account settings of PVYgroupware. Neither an organisation sysadmin nor we at PVY.swiss can obtain the password, which is hashed, encrypted and stored in a encrypted isolated database. The PVY-ID is the users identity for access to all of the PVY Apps and Services, and once logged into one App, they are automatically logged into all apps they have access to. If a user has lost their PVY-ID Password entirely, they have to contact their SysAdmin or HelpDesk. Its possible within PVYcentral to trigger a password reset link, but not anywhere else.
¶ Additional Security Layer 2FA/MFA
Login with a unified single sign on Service such as PVY-ID, which protects your privacy, is neat and handy. However, we added on many of our Web Applications so called 2-factor Authentification, which works with the OTP Specification. If enabled, which we highly recommend to protect your data, you need to enter a so called “One Time Pass Code” in addition to login. Learn more about how to enable it.
¶ Third Party Services you can use with PVY-ID
PVY.swiss has already contracted a few popular online services which enable in a similar manner as “Login with Apple-ID”, “Login with Google” and so on, to use “Login with PVY-ID”. Since this Service goes beyond than just login with PVY-ID we allow you to protect your identity and will communicate the public availability of that upcoming feature through marketing actitivites.
¶ List of Apps & Service users can sign-in
We have made a few exceptions for the role assignements, based on daily workflows and usage, where PVY-ID User can use their PVY-ID Single-Sign-On Service. Here you can check our PVY-ID Supported List for more details.
¶ PVYmessenger
Users can sign-in and authenticate and it creates your PVYmessenger account. However, the user is free to choose besides the real Display name a Nickname for the Messenger, since in many Organizations as in real life, people have a special nickname.
¶ PVYserviceDesk
If your organization utilises PVYserviceDesk to streamline Operations, you will be by default assigned to the role of a reporter, which is similar to a customer, to request help. This can be changed, at the PVYcentral Level, to assign own organizational users for PVYserviceDesk straight as an Agent. Per user or groupwise.
¶ PVYbusiness-Suite
PVYbusiness-Suite has a Backend and a frontend. Backend as Business Software with a Login Area, and the Frontend is your eCommerce enabled WebCMS with a Customer Portal. On the Backend you can authenticate with PVY-ID but on the frontend we utilise Tokenized Logins for the Customer of an Organizsation. (Login with E-Mail Only, get Token by email with a short login window)
¶ Optional available for Enterprise Customers
Additional Features for Business Customers upon request as follow:
¶ Passkeys
Let users allow to sign-in with their Hardware Device oAuth Mechanism, like
- Fingerprint
- Face-ID
- Hello@ID
¶ CAS Support
You can use our ID Service to integrate into other existing Apps and Service within your IT landscape.
¶ Kudelski SSO
We support hyper security sensitive organisations such as the public sector or banks with the option to work with the Kudelski Hardware Dongle for User Authentication. For such requirements, please contact our sales team.