{"id":4193,"date":"2020-12-23T11:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2021-02-03T11:58:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:58:26","slug":"beta-release-exchangedefender-sms-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/beta-release-exchangedefender-sms-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta Release: ExchangeDefender SMS Relay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4194\" width=\"640\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image.png 624w, https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>More and more, we\u2019re prompted for our cell phone number \u2013 not for marketing, but for functional purposes. Web sites are using your cell number to text you a verification code, password reminders can\u2019t even start without texting you &#8211; even the local restaurant will text you when your table is available. Everyone has a cell phone on them all the time and it\u2019s the most convenient way to reach you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The convenience stops abruptly when cell phones are used in a corporate or collaborative environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cWhose number ends in -2910? <\/strong><br><strong><br> I\u2019m waiting for the OTP from Intuit!  <\/strong><br><strong><br> Which phone are we using for 2FA for XYZ Inc?\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years we\u2019ve used various apps, services, even burner phones for 2FA\/OTP purposes. When we got sent home by Covid-19, everyone felt the immediate sting of signing into services from a new computer. Managing apps, forwarding services and automation scripts that were at times delayed or hit and miss was just not tolerable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, we were integrating our wildly successful <a href=\"https:\/\/exchangedefender.com\/encryption\">Email Encryption<\/a> with TXT (for secure message delivery) and this seemed like a natural extension. Pretty soon we were SMS-enabling everything in our organization and finally having a layer of reporting and management that is critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to enroll?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Just go to our portal at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.ExchangeDefender.com\">https:\/\/support.ExchangeDefender.com<\/a> and click on <strong>SMS Proxy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At launch, we\u2019re making it available with local numbers in\nUnited States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. Once you pick your number\nyou can add team members to it and you\u2019re done. Every message sent to that\nnumber will be copied to other members of your team. It\u2019s like a distribution\ngroup, but with cell phones \u2013 and you can have up to 5 people assigned to each\nnumber. Numbers are just $5 \/ month and include 100 inbound messages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve already got it working with a ton of different services (email, Slack, Teams) and we look forward to launching next and exciting services in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beta Release: ExchangeDefender SMS Relay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exchangedefender.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}