What Is Two-Factor Authentication ? Using 2FA for Your Business

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It might not seem like it, but two-step verification (aka two-factor authentication) is already a common aspect of our lives. For example, if you used your debit card today and entered your PIN, then you used two-step verification.

Beyond adding a layer of security to financial transactions, it has many other uses as well, including a wide application across the digital aspect of our lives.

What is two-step verification?
Essentially, it’s a process that requires two methods of proving your identity before you can log in to an account.

How two-step verification works
With two-step verification, you need two factors, like your password, followed by a set of security questions or a code sent to your phone or email. The process can be applied widely, but the additional layer of security two-step verification provides means that a hacker or other nefarious individual needs to steal more than just your password.

Beyond SMS two-step authentication, there are a few additional methods of identity verification, including:
Biometrics: This includes face, fingerprint, retina, or voice recognition.
Hardware: This is specific hardware, like a USB, designed with two-factor authentication in mind.
Application: This is a particular application that generates a unique code across multiple different logins.

Why is two-step verification used?
It can be challenging to verify that people are who they say they are across the online space. When you have two-factor authentication enabled, it makes your accounts less attractive targets for hackers. Plus, if your account does get targeted, it’ll be that much more challenging to break in.

Who should use two-step authentication?
Anyone interested in improving the levels of security across their online accounts should enable two-step verification. It’s a process that’ll add a few minutes to your day (at the very most), and it’ll help protect your accounts from being hacked, and your identity from being compromised — a small price to pay for improved security.

Your password might not be as secure as you think. But even with a secure password, your accounts are still at risk.

When your account is hacked, all of your information is at risk. So why take the chance, especially when two-step verification is so simple to implement?

With two-step verification enabled whenever you enter your password you’ll be asked for an additional verification step (depending on the route you chose). Once you complete this, you can log in securely and access your account.

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