How-To: Configure security questions for an identity store

Applies To:

GroupID 8.x

Summary:

GroupID provides a pool bank of pre-defined security questions. The pool can be modified by adding or removing questions from it.

Security questions in the GroupID pool bank are available to all identity stores and can be included while creating or modifying an identity store. 

Question Pool:

GroupID provides multiple authentication types for multifactor authentication and second factor authentication. Security questions is one of them.

When an identity store is created, four questions from the question pool bank are automatically added to the new identity store’s local pool. Questions can be added and removed from the local pool. Identity store users can select questions from the local pool and provide answers to those questions for enrollment and authentication.

Configuration - Add a question to the local security questions pool:

1. In GroupID Management Console, click the Identity Stores node.
2. Right click your required identity store and select Properties.
3. On the Identity Stores Properties window, select the Configurations tab and click Security Questions in the left pane.
4. .Click the drop down in the box next to the Add button. From the Question Pool list, select a security question and click Add.
   To remove a question, select it from the Questions list and click Remove.
   To remove all questions from the local pool, click Remove All.
5. Click Apply and then OK.
   

   

The Administrator can manage the local security questions pool, which is available to users while enrolling their identity store accounts and authenticating for multi-factor or second factor authentication.

Reference:

GroupID Online Help topic: Security Questions Authentication