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Multi Factor Authentication: What it is, why you need it & how to use it.
These days, passwords are no longer being viewed as the most secure way to protect an account. Cyber criminals are advancing at an exponential rate as are the ways in which they can find out your credentials. By only using a password as an authentication method, the security of an account is based solely on the strength of a password, which, as years of research has proven, is not generally very strong – two-thirds of people use the same password everywhere, and many of the passwords they use are easily guessed.
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Multi Factor Authentication: What it is, why you need it & how to use it.
These days, passwords are no longer being viewed as the most secure way to protect an account...
Read more