Everything you need to stay in control of your account.

Viewing your activity

Your PulsePass account keeps a record of the security-relevant things that happen on your account, and shows them to you in a personal Activity view. It’s where you go to answer questions like “did I sign in from that airport hotspot last week?” or “when did I enable two-factor?” — without an administrator needing to look anything up on your behalf.

Find it in your account dashboard under Security → Activity. The view is scoped to you: you only see events tied to your own user account, never other people’s.

What appears in your activity

Each event is a single action with a timestamp and a plain-language summary. Typical entries include:

• Sign-ins (successes and failures) and sign-outs.
• Email and phone verification actions.
• Password resets and recovery-code usage.
• Two-factor authentication enabled, disabled, or reset.
• Passkeys added, renamed, or removed.
• Consent granted to a new app or a connected app’s access revoked.
• Profile changes (display name, language, avatar).
• Organization invitations accepted and role changes made to your membership.

You can filter by date range, category (authentication, consent, user, organization, security), outcome (success, failure, denied), or a free-text search across the summary and metadata.

Connected apps

A “connected app” is an outside application that you’ve signed in to with your PulsePass account. The first time you sign in to a third-party app with PulsePass, the app asks for permission to see specific things about you — your email, your profile, the organizations you belong to. When you approve, PulsePass records the decision so you don’t have to re-approve every sign-in.

The Connected apps page (in your account dashboard, under Security) shows every app that currently has approval. For each one you see:

• The app’s name and friendly identifier.
• When you first approved it and when it was last used.
• Which permissions you granted — for example, openid (identifier only), email, profile, roles, phone.
• Controls to sign the app out or remove its approval entirely.

Scopes in plain language

Each permission corresponds to a specific set of profile details:

• openid — your PulsePass identifier (so the app knows which account is signed in).
• email — your email address and whether it’s verified.
• profile — display name, given and family name, language preference.
• roles — the roles you hold in any organization the app knows about.
• phone — your phone number and whether it’s verified.

PulsePass also emits two organization claims — your organization profile (name, logo, brand colors) and the websites it owns — so connected apps can render your organization consistently without asking again.

Signing an app out

The Sign out button next to an app revokes every currently issued token. The app will immediately lose access — the next page it loads will force a new sign-in. Because your original approval is still on file, the next sign-in is silent (no consent prompt), as long as the app is asking for the same permissions.

Use this when you’ve signed in on a device you no longer use — a shared computer, a loaner laptop, or a browser you cleared cookies in and want to be certain is logged out.

Removing an app’s approval

Remove approval goes further. It revokes the app’s tokens and deletes your consent record entirely. The next time that app tries to sign you in, it starts from scratch — and you’ll see the full consent prompt again, the same as the first time you signed in.

Use this when you’re no longer using an app at all, or when the app now asks for more than it should. Removing approval is the clean way to stop sharing your profile with an app without closing your PulsePass account.

Profile and avatar

Your profile — name, display name, language preference, and avatar — is managed from the account dashboard. Your avatar is stored once and served to every Pulse app, so updating it here updates it everywhere. The same is true for the organization logos you manage from the Organizations page.

See also: Learn about organizations.