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Implement and manage multifactor authentication (MFA)

Implement and manage multifactor authentication (MFA)

- This lesson, we will discuss how to implement multifactor authentication. So multifactor authentication can be configured in multiple ways. So this helps an organization or the tenant to increase security by requesting users to provide username and password when signing, and then using second authentication method. So there are three type of security methods available. One is something you know which is simply username and password. That was the basic authentication method that we were using all this time. And then something you have that is something like Microsoft Authenticator app or text sent to your mobile phone. So then you need to have additional device in order to authenticate yourself. The other one is something you are, which is biometric authentication, which is an example is Windows Hello for an example, right? So then these are two types of authentication method that the methods that we can use. So…

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