Company Information

Purpose

Use this Company Information form to:

  • View the company account information.

Provided you are assigned the capability User can edit company account information and global password settings you can also:

  • Enter or edit the name for the company account.

  • Set up a password policy for the account, which is global for all users of the account.

Provided you are assigned the capability User can edit company account information and global password settings and the capability User can add, edit, and remove other users you can also:

  • Specify a primary billing/administrative contact for the account.

  • Specify an optional secondary billing/administrative contact for the account.

This form is filled in for you when your company first subscribes to LiveVault Online Backup Service.

You can later edit this information by clicking Company on the MyLiveVault menu bar.

Fields and Buttons Descriptions

Field/Button Description
Account Information section
Company/account name Displays the current company account name. This name appears on all your LiveVault Online Backup Service bills and other account-related items.

To change the name, type the new name of your company, or the name of the organization that you want to use as the account name for LiveVault Online Backup Service.

This can include any characters (for example, letters, numbers, symbols), up to a maximum of  60 characters.

Primary billing/administrative contact Displays the name and e-mail address of the user currently assigned as the primary billing/administrative contact for the account.

The first user designated for this company account is selected as the primary billing contact by default.

A primary contact for the account is required.

We send all LiveVault Online Backup Service bills and billing and administrative-type issues to this contact. For example, this will be the person contacted if a question arises regarding renewals. Bills and related items will be sent to this contact at the address provided in the contact's user account.

You can:

  • Leave yourself as the contact (if your name is selected), or leave the current contact.

  • Select New from the list to create a new user account for the person who will be the contact. The User Information form opens so you can enter the required user information.

  • Select an existing user from the list to be the contact. If the user name in the list is followed by an ellipses "...", it means that additional user information must be provided in order for that user to be selected as a contact. If you select that user, a User Information form opens so you can enter the required information.

Secondary billing/administrative contact Displays the name and e-mail address of the user currently assigned as the secondary billing/administrative contact for the account.

We will only contact this person if the primary billing/administrative contact cannot be reached. This is an optional contact.

If you are editing the account information, the current contact is displayed.

You can:

  • Not select a contact.

  • Leave the current contact (if one is specified).

  • Select New from the list to create a new user account for the person who will be the contact. The User Information form opens so you can enter the required user information.

  • Select yourself or an existing user from the list to be the contact. If the user name in the list is followed by an ellipses "...", it means that additional user information must be provided in order for that user to be selected as a contact. If you select that user, a User Information form opens so you can enter the required information.

Password Policy section
Passwords cannot be re-used within 12 changes Select this check box to keep a history of each users last twelve passwords. Users will be prevented from reusing these passwords. The history will begin with the users current password when this option is selected.

Clear this check box to allow users to reuse passwords without restrictions.

This is a global account password policy for the account and affects all users for this account.

Passwords must be changed every n days Select this check box and type a number of days in the text box to keep password ages and expire passwords after they reach the specified age. The pre-defined value is 30 days. Users will be required to change their passwords when they next log in following the password expiration date.

Clear this check box to allow users to keep their passwords without any password age restrictions.

This is a global account password policy for the account and affects all users for this account.

Enforce strict password rules (8 characters; must include non-alphabetics) Select this check box to require strong passwords. A password must be eight characters, with at least one letter and at least one non-alphabetic character (such as a number). After setting this password option, all users will be required to change their password to meet this criteria the next time they log in to MyLiveVault.

Clear this check box to use the less strict password requirements which are a minimum of any four characters and no requirement on a mix of letters and numbers.

This is a global account password policy for the account and affects all users for this account.

Disable a user after 3 failed login attempts Select this check box to automatically disable and lock out a user from MyLiveVault after the user fails to successfully log in three times in a row within a five minute period.  Once disabled, a user cannot log in to MyLiveVault until the user account has been manually enabled (by an authorized user).

Clear this check box to use the less strict lockout setting, where a user who has five failed login attempts within five minutes is automatically locked out for five minutes.

All failed login attempts are logged for reference. This is not dependent on how this option is set.

A failed login attempt can occur if a user:

  • Types an incorrect password

  • Leaves the password field blank

  • Attempts to login when the user account is already disabled/locked out

  • Attempts to login when the user is not authorized to log in to MyLiveVault (that is, the user is set up as a billing/administrative user only and has not been given a password for MyLiveVault).

This is a global account password policy for the account and affects all users for this account.

View Log button Click to view a log of all failed login attempts for the account.

For each failed login attempt, the log contains the username, a timestamp, the IP address and hostname (if available) from which the failed attempt was made.

General Buttons
Submit button Click to submit the company account information.
Cancel button Click to discard all company account information changes.

If you are editing existing account information, the All Computers form opens.