By: Ahmed Syed – Network Tech Support (Level-II)

Are you worried about your email account getting compromised? Tired of updating your password for security and having hard time remembering?

Your password – it’s arguably the most common security measure available and it’s also almost the most vulnerable thing on earth.

How does adding an extra layer of security sound? Have peace of mind by enabling MFA.

Multi-Factor Authentication is a method which requires that the person should seek data for the verification of identity in two or more ways.
The verifications are usually a combination of two of the below:

• Validation of your password.
• Utilizing your mobile phone via text or Authenticator App.
• Biometrics such as fingerprint, iris or face recognition.

As a bare minimum for conventional Multi-Factor Authentication, you can get sent an access code to your mobile phone that you enter, along with your usual password.

The idea of MFA is to keep multiple layers of protection in a way that it should be difficult to gain access to your account.

Multi-factor authentication has evolved as the single most effective control to insulate an organization against remote attacks and when implemented correctly, can prevent most threat actors from easily gaining an initial foothold into your organization, even if credentials become compromised.

To summarize, with the increase of cyber-attacks on organizations, password strength cannot be relied on as the only layer of protection for an organization to preventing threat actors from gaining unauthorized access. Although not bullet-proof, multi-factor authentication is a proven way to lessen the likelihood of a data breach via a compromised password.