With the rapid advancement of technology and the growing number of security threats, both physical and cyber, conventional methods of access control have become insufficient in ensuring the security ...

Authentication has been a part of digital life since MIT set up a password on their shared-access computer in 1961. Today, authentication covers virtually every interaction you can have on the ...

As passwords routinely fail to protect users, multi-factor authentication (MFA) is fast emerging as the new gold standard of cybersecurity. By adding extra layers of protection, MFA is able to block ...

The digital landscape is ever-evolving, as are the tactics employed by cybercriminals seeking unauthorized access to valuable information held within. In response, organizations across most industries ...

I was given the opportunity to review a book from the widely read “for dummies” series, on the topic of multi-factor authentication. This book is aimed at IT administrators, engineers, project ...

With the prevalence of online crime and the rise in cyber-attacks, it's difficult to neglect multi-factor authentication (MFA), which aims to ensure that the person accessing a system or resource ...

Morehead State University Office for Information Technology (OIT) offers enhanced protection for key applications and services using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or two-factor authentication.

Two-factor authentication is one of the most effective ways to keep your accounts safe, but it also means that if you ever lose your phone and don’t have access to a backup code, you won’t be able to ...

The Canada Revenue Agency is introducing a new security requirement encouraging users to add a backup multi-factor ...

As of February 27, 2019, Apple is requiring that all Developer accounts with an Account Holder role be secured with two-factor authentication in order to ensure that only the account owner is able to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. Before talking about what authentication is and how it works, ...