Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 — Microsoft says that multi-factor authentication blocks 99% of account hacks.

The Office of Information Technology will roll out multi-factor authentication next month to protect Microsoft Office 365 applications for all staff, faculty and student employees. Between Nov. 3-18, ...

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 ...

Microsoft will soon change the mandate to multi-factor authentication (MFA) with changes to Microsoft 365 defaults. As Microsoft points out, “When we look at hacked accounts, more than 99.9% don’t ...

The Director of Identity Security at Microsoft has been warning about the inefficacy of passwords and more recently about standard Multi-Factor Authentication or MFA ...

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When Microsoft acquired PhoneFactor last fall, the handwriting was on the wall for the future of two-factor authentication for the company’s consumer cloud offerings. Now it appears that handwriting ...

Microsoft will soon fast-track multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption for its Microsoft 365 cloud productivity platform by adding MFA capabilities to the Outlook email client. The company says in ...

Microsoft sets multi-factor authentication as default for all Azure AD customers Your email has been sent Microsoft is taking a more aggressive step to try to protect users of Azure Active Directory ...

Microsoft has bought multi-factor authentication specialist PhoneFactor with the goal of integrating the company’s technology into its cloud services and on-premises applications. PhoneFactor, based ...

Microsoft Authenticator, the company's app-based authenticator, and Windows Hello, the umbrella label for Microsoft's biometrics technology, are better methods of authentication, a Microsoft exec says ...

How a business email compromise attack exploited Microsoft’s multi-factor authentication Your email has been sent Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is often cited as one of the best security methods ...