Plans: Every plan. A new company starts on the 14-day free trial. Who: anyone with a work email. The person who creates a company becomes its owner.
Create your account
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Open the sign-up page
Go to the sign-up page, or select Create a workspace on the sign-in page. A link from the pricing on the website opens the same page with your plan picked.
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Fill in the account step
Enter your Full name, Work email and a Password of at least 12 characters. Tick I accept the terms and the data processing agreement.To use your work account instead, select Continue with Microsoft or Continue with Google where the page shows them. You then accept the terms on the Company step.
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Pass the check
The page runs a short check that you’re a person. If it can’t load, allow
challenges.cloudflare.com or try another network.4
Select Continue to company
Pharus sends a confirmation link to your address. The page shows Check your email.
Confirm your email address
No account is used until its address is confirmed. The email Confirm your email for Pharus has a link that works for 24 hours and only once.1
Open the link in the email
It opens a page in Pharus with a Confirm email button. Opening the link alone confirms nothing, so a mail scanner that opens links can’t confirm the address for you.
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Select Confirm email
Pharus signs you in and continues at the Company step. If you stop here, your next sign-in starts at the same step.
With Microsoft or Google, Pharus asks you to confirm the address only when your provider didn’t confirm it. Select Send link and open the link in the same browser, so your Microsoft or Google sign-in stays connected to the account.
Set up your company
The company steps follow the account step: Company, Routing and Pipeline. A panel next to the form shows the workspace as you fill it in. You can change all of it later under Settings → Company.1
About the company
- Company name, for example “Nordlys Elektronikk AS”.
- Main establishment: an EU or EEA country, or Outside the EU and the EEA.
- Organisation number: nine digits from Brønnøysundregistrene. Required when the main establishment is Norway, optional otherwise.
- Product families: 1, 2–5 or 6+. The plan and its monthly price are shown below the choice.
- Tick I accept the terms and the data processing agreement.
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Where does your report go?
A company established in an EU member state reports to that state’s CSIRT, and the step shows which one. A company in Norway or outside the EU picks the EU member state, if any, of each link in the CRA Art. 14(7) cascade: authorised representative in the EU, importer, distributor, member state with most users. The first link in the EU decides. See Art. 14(7) routing.Not sure yet? Continue anyway and set the route later. Select Continue to pipeline.
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Connect your first SBOM
Pick where your first SBOM will come from: GitHub, Azure DevOps, Dependency-Track / sbomify or Upload SBOM, and select Create workspace. Or select Do this later, which creates the workspace too.
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Open Pharus
The page lists the next steps (the on-call rota, security.txt, an SBOM). Select Open Pharus.
Owners and admins who sign in with a password must set up two-step verification. The first time you open Pharus, it asks you to do that before anything else. It takes a minute: see Account security.
Product families and the plan
The number of product families you pick stands for a plan:
A link from the website’s pricing picks the matching choice for you. The answer doesn’t commit you: the trial has every software feature and no limit on product families, and an owner chooses the plan to pay for under Settings → Billing. Pricing follows product families, not seats. See Plans.
Accept the terms
Whoever creates a company accepts the terms and the data processing agreement on its behalf, also for a second company. Pharus records the version, the time and who accepted. If the terms change while the sign-up page is open, creating the workspace stops with “Our terms have changed since you opened this page.” Reload the page, read the terms and accept them again.Join a company you were invited to
An owner or admin invites you from Settings → Members. The invitation email names the company and the person who invited you, and has an Accept invitation button. The link works for 7 days and only from that email.1
Open the link in the invitation
If you’re signed in, you see Join and the company name, with your role and who invited you.
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Sign in or create your account
Not signed in, the link opens the sign-in page. New to Pharus? Under Invited by a colleague? select Create your account. Sign up with the address the invitation went to, and confirm it. There are no company steps.
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Select Accept invitation
You join the company with the role in the invitation. Decline invitation turns it down.
Choose your language
Pharus is in Norwegian (bokmål) and English.- Sign-up and sign-in pages open in the language of the website you came from. Switch with the language menu on the page.
- In the app, use the language menu in the top bar, or Settings → Your profile → Language, which also sets the language of the emails Pharus sends you.
- The company’s default language is set from the main establishment: Norwegian for a company in Norway, English for every other country. It is used for invitations and for members who haven’t picked a language. Change it under Settings → Company → Default language.