{"id":321,"date":"2019-02-19T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positive.tech\/?p=321"},"modified":"2021-01-03T18:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T23:57:42","slug":"multi-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positive.tech\/multi-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Having your email account hacked is your worst nightmare<\/strong>. Hackers have become very sophisticated and smarter than ever before. They will&nbsp;<strong>copy your address book<\/strong>, get your&nbsp;<strong>personal information<\/strong>&nbsp;including&nbsp;<strong>credit cards<\/strong>&nbsp;etc.,&nbsp;<strong>they\u2019ll send money requests on your behalf, and they will even blackmail you.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Fortunately, there\u2019s&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Multi-factor Authentication<\/strong>, or MFA in short, AKA 2-step verification. Multi-factor Authentication is the best thing to happen to passwords since passwords. When attempting to log in from an unrecognized device, the user will be prompted to enter secondary one-time code they\u2019ll get on their phone. Assuming the hacker has no access to your phone, there\u2019s no way they can get into your account. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you have a&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Google account<\/strong>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/2sv\">click here<\/a>&nbsp;to setup 2-step verification. For a&nbsp;<strong>Microsoft account<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/mfasetup\">click here<\/a>. If you\u2019re in a&nbsp;<strong>domain environment<\/strong>&nbsp;and this option is not available to you, contact our&nbsp;<strong>helpdesk<\/strong>&nbsp;for further assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having your email account hacked is your worst nightmare. Hackers have become very sophisticated and smarter than ever before. They will&nbsp;copy your address book, get your&nbsp;personal information&nbsp;including&nbsp;credit cards&nbsp;etc.,&nbsp;they\u2019ll send money requests on your behalf, and they will even blackmail you.&nbsp;Fortunately, there\u2019s&nbsp;Multi-factor Authentication, or MFA in short, AKA 2-step verification. Multi-factor Authentication is the best thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Multi-Factor Authentication - Positive Tech Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/positive.tech\/multi-factor-authentication\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Multi-Factor Authentication - Positive Tech Solutions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Having your email account hacked is your worst nightmare. 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