Take a look at how the South African Revenue Service is tightening security measures to protect taxpayers against fraud, including two-factor authentication.
As digital threats evolve, Sars aims to stay ahead with advanced initiatives that prioritise the safety of taxpayers' personal and financial data. File Photo: IOL Sars said that these initiatives were introduced to protect the information of taxpayers and to stop malicious attacks on Sars data.
Once the the OTP has been successfully validated as correct, users are granted access to their eFiling profile.– enforcing two-factor authentication on all individual profilesThe eFiling password requirements have also been enhanced which means that new and changed passwords need to meet the following criteria:– contain at least one uppercase, lowercase, numeric and special character– exclude repetitive or sequential characters like “aaaaa” or “12345” etc.
“Biometric facial recognition authentication is being introduced for all individuals who register for eFiling using a valid South African ID,” Sars said.
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