{"id":1956,"date":"2023-04-25T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secur-serv.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2023-04-25T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T17:32:21","slug":"the-layers-of-multi-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/the-layers-of-multi-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"The Layers of Multi-Factor Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s consider a basic item that increases overall security of your accounts where available: multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA requires users to authenticate via multiple methods to ensure that the person logging in is indeed the intended user.<\/p>\n<p>MFA contrasts with the more traditional login requirements of a simple user name and password. It does that by adding in a requirement to provide another piece of information to authenticate.\u00a0MFA encompasses these items when authenticating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1059581 size-450w\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scantron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GettyImages-612009558-adjusted-450x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"208\" \/>Something only the user knows<\/li>\n<li>Something only the user has<\/li>\n<li>Something only the user is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now that you know what MFA does for you and how it works, what types of attacks does MFA stop?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Credentials lost through phishing campaigns, such as the ones asking you to update your info or your account is going to be closed.<\/li>\n<li>Password spraying, which is where a common easy password is used against multiple accounts to see if it works such as \u201cpassword1234\u201d or \u201cqwerty123.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Credential stuffing, which is where a hacker purchases a database of credentials then tests the database to see whether there are any reused credentials within your organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately there is one important stat that you should take into account on why you should use MFA when available. MFA alone stops 99.9% of automated password attacks. That\u2019s massive in terms of a level of protection you don\u2019t see in many other security mechanisms. It\u2019s time to enable MFA right now wherever you can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s consider a basic item that increases overall security of your accounts where available: multi-factor authentication (MFA). MFA requires users to authenticate via multiple methods to ensure that the person logging in is indeed the intended user. MFA contrasts with the more traditional login requirements of a simple user name and password. It does that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41],"tags":[18,60],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-managed-security-services","category-technology-solutions","tag-cybersecurity","tag-mfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secur-serv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}