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Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for your Spryng account

Protecting sensitive information has never been more important than today. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) serves as a powerful defense, providing an additional layer of protection beyond passwords. Let’s look at why MFA is so vital nowadays, how it works, how it benefits…

What is SMS grey routing and why is it harmful?

When budgets are tight, cheaper bulk SMS rates can seem attractive. Discount SMS providers almost always use grey routing and this can end up in wasting a lot of time and money. In some cases, grey routes can even damage your…

Useful tips to recognize and prevent SMS phishing (also called smishing)

In these corona times, criminals are increasingly using smishing. In false (fake) SMS messages they offer certain things on behalf of government agencies or banks. They also spread fake news about the corona virus and offer so-called “antibacterial payment cards”. In…

The importance of OTP and 2FA (also for the home office)

Protect (home) workplaces from cyber attacks. Once, privacy was a given on the World Wide Web. These days however, major data breaches, phishing scams and ransomware are the order of the day. Companies and governments are increasingly falling victim to cybercriminals.…

European Day of the Privacy

28 January: an important day for data protection, for everyone! On the 28th of January, it is European Privacy Day again. A day created by the Council of Europe in 2007 to inform citizens of their rights when companies and governments…

What value does good support have to us? (Spoiler: the greatest!)

In Dutch there is a saying that “a complaint is free advice”. In our opinion this is entirely true. At Spryng however we prefer to prevent customers and relations from being unsatisfied with our SMS service or other messaging issues that…

What is the difference between ISO 27001 and NEN 7510?

Optimal security of your confidential data. Spryng is the only SMS provider in the Netherlands with the ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certificate. These certificates guarantee optimal information security. But what is the difference between ISO and NEN? And why is…

Spryng, the specialist in the area of SMS authentication, Two Way Authentication

A lot of clients of Spryng, especially municipalities and healthcare institutions send extensively passwords via the Spryng SMS Gateway. The reason for this kind of usage is, that the SMS Gateway of Spryng is specially developed in order to be connected…

Spryng – your partner in delivering the One Time Password (OTP) via SMS

The SMS provider Spryng is your new partner in delivering the One Time Passwords via SMS. This service is also called SMS authentication. Spryngs´ SMS Gateway is connected with the Multi Factor Authentication systems like RSA, SafeNet, SMS PASSCODE, Secure Envoy and Sonic…