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Understand multifactor authentication

Understand multifactor authentication

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Understand multifactor authentication

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- [Instructor] We know that you need to provide your credentials to Azure AD for authentication, and in turn, get access to resources in the cloud. It's a simple one-step process, but what if someone somehow gets access to your credentials? Someone with not the best intent? It would be equally easy for them to access your resources, and perform unauthorized actions on your behalf. The consequence of that could be from bad to worse. Multifactor authentication can help prevent that from happening by creating an extra barrier to entry in addition to your password. Password is the first factor of authentication. If you add another factor of authentication, you get two factor authentication, password plus one more. Add another one, and you get three factor authentication, and so on. Whenever you have two or more factors, we refer to it as multi-factor authentication. A user must pass through all the factors successfully in order to gain access. The industry standard is to use two factors…

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