Donglify

Our retailing company keeps all its sensitive data, including the customer base info, on a protected hard drive with 2-step verification. To get through you’ll have to enter a valid password and have a hardware security key attached to your device’s USB port. But all those advanced security measures will go to waste once any of those keys get stolen or lost. Looks like a big problem, right? Well, not anymore. We’ve got that Donglify app so our employees can connect to a key plugged into the machine back in the main office. And what was really great about said app is that it works just fine for the dongles we use.

Our company’s order processing center had been using a popular phone manager software for a few years until someone in charge came up with an idea to upgrade the license to premium. So now we’ve got a whole bunch of new awesome functions that can’t be accessed without a USB key and only two of those keys.

Spending a few thousand on extra dongles for everyone was way beyond our budget. So we’ve just connected one of the keys to sysadmin’s machine (for it’s always up and running anyways) and used Donglify to share it through the corporate LAN. And it’s a SafeNet eToken 5110 so we’re free to use the app’s multi-connect function, meaning that any employee can access the key at all times no matter how many people are already connected to it. Another plus point of the app is a totally self-explanatory user interface so we could introduce it with no additional staff training.

My software development team relies on Donglify every time we need to involve additional freelancers to speed up the debugging process. We use the app to share one specific hardware key, so all the temporary team members can use it to access protected software files. After work is done, we just wipe that dongle and boom! — no pre-release leaks ever. Worked with every dongle brand we’ve used so far. Sure thing, Donglify isn’t free. But it’s considerably cheaper than all those dongles we used to mail to our temps before. 10/10 would recommend.

I take pride in my work at I.T. support of a huge steelworks plant. With several thousand machines in my charge running on every platform possible and using loads of professional software, I was bound to deal with a minor, yet annoying problem. Dozens of license dongles that I had to carry around. Some of those are so tiny I’ve started to develop a phobic kind of thing about losing one of them from some magically appeared hole in my pocket. Replacement would’ve cost a tremendous amount of money.

That’s why I’ve been looking for a way to redirect all those dongles over the network so I could access them from any remote machine. After several days of thorough google searching and intense forum-reading, I’ve settled on Donglify. Unlike some other dongle sharing software, it works with pretty much, every dongle brand. Well, in all fairness, some of its advanced functionality, e.g. the multi-connect function, will only work for the top brands like Sentinel or HASP HL. Lucky for me, I hardly use those advanced functions in my day-to-day routine. What is essential, however, is that license keys don’t have to leave their safe harbor in my office and so the risk to lose or damage them is reduced to an absolute minimum.

If there is anything I’ve learned from my field sales experience, it’s that high mobility is a key. Now, as a regional distributor, I’m administering several hundred employees who spend the majority of the time on the move. And each and every one of them has to access the non-public part of our corporate web page multiple times a day — actually, it’s part of their job. To do so, one needs a hardware key that has to be plugged directly into their computer. And here comes a problem: USB ports tend to wear out by constant use and fail to keep dongles in place. Also, let’s not overlook an issue known as “the human factor”. I cannot even count how many times someone called me to report the lost dongle. Well, actually, I can — they’re all in the debit column.

After a thorough study, I finally figured out a solution. We’re using Donglify to share one of our hardware keys from our office desktop PC, so staff members can connect to it remotely from their laptops. And since all that hardware keys are HASP HL, the app’s multi-connect function works perfectly fine for them. On top of that, Donglify has a 2048-bit SSL encryption algorithm, so there’s no way someone can obtain unauthorized access to our business secrets.