The invention provides a process for authenticating an identity of a user accessing a location in a secure manner using a communications device that is in direct communication with an independent server and in secondary communication with a second server, the communications device having a user interface and an input module, the process including the steps of hosting device information on the independent server for validation; generating and sending a user prompt from the device to the independent server for validation, and if validated as correct, creating a device ID and transaction ID as indexes to identify the device on the database; generating a randomised keypad on the user interface; inserting and submitting a pass code by way of the randomised keypad; relaying said pass code to the second server; and generating a second validation at the second server, using the pass code and thereby authenticating both user and device.