Using Personalized Authentication Questions

In the Waveset account policy, you can select an option to allow users to supply their own authentication questions in the End User and Administrator interfaces. You can additionally set the minimum number of questions that the user must provide and answer to be able to log in successfully by using personalized authentication questions.

To configure Waveset to allow user-supplied questions, perform the following steps:

1. Select the Security > Policies tabs.

2. On the Policies page, click Default Identity Manager Account Policy.

3. When the Policy page displays, scroll down to the Secondary Authentication Policy Options section.

   Complete this section as follows:

   • For Login Interface. Select User Interface from the menu.

   • Maximum Number of Failed Login Attempts. Enter the maximum number of failed attempts you want to allow.

   • Enforce Answer Policy at Login. Deselect this option.

   • Authentication Questions Policy. Select Any from the menu.

   • Minimum Number of Questions User is Required to Answer. Enter the minimum number of questions you want the user to answer.

   • Answer Quality Policy. Select None from the menu.

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     Note –

     If you previously configured one or more Authentication Answer Quality Policies, they will be available for selection from the menu. Otherwise, the only option is None.

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   • Allow User Supplied Questions. Select this option to allow user-supplied questions.

   • Minimum Number of User Supplied Questions. Enter the minimum number of questions you want the user to provide.

   • Supplied Question Quality Policy. Select None from the menu.

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     Note –

     If you previously configured one or more Authentication Question Quality Policies, they will be available for selection from the menu. Otherwise, the only option is None.

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   • Organizations. Select one or more organizations to which this object will be available.

4. Click Save to save your changes.

Users can add and change questions from the Change Answers to Authentication Questions page. An example of this page is shown in Figure 3–9.

Figure 3–9 Change Answers: Personalized Authentication Questions