As cyberattacks become increasingly advanced and proficient at bypassing traditional authentication methods, adoption of multi-factor authentication (or MFA) solutions is fast becoming standard Identity and Access Management (or IAM) practice among organisations and individuals. Traditional single-factor authentication methods, such as the basic username and password combination, are becoming less and less effective at preventing security breaches and are on their way to becoming obsolete.
Years ago, MFA was typically only used by organisations that required the highest possible levels of security. In recent years, the adoption of MFA solutions has become much more widespread, with websites and services owned by huge companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook all implementing MFA solutions in their designs, either as the default or as an optional extra. Companies have reported significant increase in the ability to defend against common cyberattacks
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