{"id":6367,"date":"2019-07-11T08:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2019-07-11T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:13:59","slug":"what-is-two-factor-or-multi-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/what-is-two-factor-or-multi-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Two-Factor or Multi-Factor Authentication?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditional password-and-username authentication can leave users vulnerable. In 2010 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2012\/dec\/17\/hollywood-hacker-christopher-chaney-10-years-jail\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Chaney<\/a>,  a celebrity-obsessed cyber-stalker, got hold of a number of celebrity  emails. Using data gleaned from social media and Wikipedia, he  successfully guessed the passwords to over 50 personal email accounts  belonging to famous women, including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and  Christina Aguilera. He had access to these accounts for almost a year,  and he was responsible for posting nude photos of Scarlett Johanssen and  several non-celebrity women. He has since been sentenced to 10 years in  jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost everyone\u2019s email address has been exposed online somewhere (luckily there are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.loginradius.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/how-do-i-know-if-my-email-has-been-leaked-in-a-data-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> ways to find out<\/a>\n if this has happened). And traditional password-based authentication is\n inherently insecure. Given these two facts, it\u2019s essential to offer \ncustomers additional ways to protect their accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two-factor or  multi-factor authentication (2FA or MFA) is an extra authentication  method that\u2019s becoming increasingly common. But just what are 2FA and  MFA, and how can they help protect your customers?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business2community.com\/cybersecurity\/what-is-two-factor-or-multi-factor-authentication-02217073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"What Is Two-Factor or Multi-Factor Authentication? (opens in a new tab)\">What Is Two-Factor or Multi-Factor Authentication?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional password-and-username authentication can leave users vulnerable. In 2010 Christopher Chaney, a celebrity-obsessed cyber-stalker, got hold of a number of celebrity emails. Using data gleaned from social media and Wikipedia, he successfully guessed the passwords to over 50 personal email accounts belonging to famous women, including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis, and Christina Aguilera. He had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[597,1901,1900],"tags":[1160,1135],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biometric","category-identity-access-management","category-identity-manager","tag-2fa","tag-mfa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1EH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}