Remote work can be much safer with the right cyber‑hygiene practices in place – multi‑factor authentication is one of them
If you happen to be working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you should beef up your logins with Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), or sometimes called Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). That way, you don’t have to entrust your security to a password alone. Easy to hack, steal, leak, rinse and repeat, passwords have become passé in the security world; it’s time to dial in your MFA.
That means you have something besides just a password. You may have seen MFA in action when you try to log into your bank and you receive an access code on your smartphone that you must also enter to verify it’s really you who is logging in. While it’s an extra step, it becomes exponentially more difficult for bad guys to get access to your account, even if they have a password that was compromised in a breach or otherwise.
What are your options?
The good news is that MFA is no longer super-tough to use. Here, we look at a few different popular ways to use it. If you need to work remotely now and log into a central office to collaborate with co-workers, this is a nice way to beef up the security of those connections.
Physical token
This means you have something like a key fob, security USB key or the like, which can be used to generate a very ..
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