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What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?

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sammy kelvin
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?


Multi-Factor authentication (MFA) means you need more than one credential to login to systems, applications, or other digital assets. It’s an integral part of the zero trust security approach that your organization may be undertaking. Stolen credentials must be fought against with every tool possible.

Back to MFA, or sometimes referred to as 2FA or Two Factor Authentication, generally requires one of the credentials to be something you know – like your username and password – and the second credential to be something that you have – such as a code sent to your smartphone.

Hackers can easily crack a password, but obtaining your phone or your token at the same time is orders of magnitude more challenging. This is why implementing MFA within your organization can be such a vital tool in securing your IT infrastructure.

In order to understand why MFA improves your security, let’s first take a step back and look at a couple of changes in the world of technology that have impacted passwords.

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