What are share security factors?

WHAT ARE THE SHARE SECURITY FACTORS?

Security Factors are security settings you apply to your content like filters to a photo, that secure the content and authenticate the context of those trying to access it. Factors are verified in realtime upon access attempt and are designed by you with just a few taps to ensure maximum privacy and protection.  You may choose one, all or none of them for each share created, and as a subscriber, you may edit (raise, lower, add/remove) them later for shares already in the wild. The current security factors are: 

Geolocation: is a share access factor. Simply pinch and zoom the map to set a geofence for allowable content access, such as your home, campus, city or country, and then select in/out or within or “not within” the viewable radius. Users must either be inside, or if out - outside - the geofence range to access the content. As with the other factors, you may re-size or modify this geofence at any time, even for shares already sent. 

Time: is a share access factor. Spin the dial to set an allowable time-frame to either allow or deny access to the secured content. Set minutes, hours or days in the future and select “in” to require time to be within that range (like an expiration range) or “out” to specific “not until or after” this time in the future for access. You can go back and change or modify the time controls if a subscriber. 

Biometric: is both a personal and share factor. Set biometric to require either yourself (personal, every time your app opens) or the recipient (share, every time they access the shared content) to perform the preferred biometric factor on the target device. This can range from fingerprint to face scanning, or whatever is supported or enabled. If set, the recipient or user cannot pass biometric authentication, they can’t access either the app, the share, or both. 

Knowledge: is a share factor much like a password. Authors can set a PIN number or short passphrase or challenge question to require recipients to respond when accessing the share. There are now messages or tokens sent out-of-band, it’s simply a shared secret both the author and recipient must know to access the content. 

All users and share factors are authenticated  in realtime for every share access. This means that share factors do not have "memory" and are assessed based on the latest policy set by the author. Authors (subscribers) can modify share factors at any time and those changes will take effect immediately for the selected share, even if it has already been distributed or accessed by others.

Tapping a factor when editing a share opens it up for changes based on the previous settings. All changes must be saved to take real-time effect.

Long-pressing a factor resets or clears that factor and disables it from the share settings. Re-tapping allows the author to  re-enable the factor again with new settings.