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.

Starting in July, Microsoft will begin gradually enforcing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all users signing into Azure to administer resources. After first completing the rollout for the Azure ...

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 ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

At Black Hat, a research duo from FYEO demonstrate a technique they call smishmash to prove that using text messaging for your second factor is very risky. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the ...

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, ...

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 ...

What is two-factor authentication, and why do experts say it's the key to better online security? Two-factor authentication—often referred to as two-step authentication and 2FA—is a method for keeping ...

FORT MEADE, Md. -- The Army is working on additional authentication measures to provide more options to access Army online resources while maintaining the security of information-technology systems.

Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting a number of customers. Many, but not all ...