Step-by-step guide to setting up two-factor authentication on Google, Apple, Microsoft, and social platforms for stronger account security.

Learn about passwordless authentication, and explore the different types, benefits and limitations to help you decide which solution to choose. Passwordless authentication is a more secure method of ...

Organizations must build on existing security practices and embrace phishing-resistant authentication to deliver robust ...

How do I know who you are? It's a simple question without a simple answer. Yet it's at the heart of so many security conversations and decisions we have these days. How does the organization identify ...

User account authentication seems stuck with 18th-century pin-tumbler locks in an era of heat-sensitive, motion-detecting vaults with man traps and biometric sensors. As I recently discussed, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about contemporary cybersecurity and online privacy issues. Before talking about what authentication is and how it works, ...

Google announced that it is implementing two-factor authentication for Google Apps to improve security. The introduction of more stringent authentication controls removes one of the hurdles for ...

For years, Facebook has given its users the option of protecting their accounts with two-factor authentication. Soon, the platform's highest-risk users will no longer have a choice: The social network ...

In previous articles about security and data breaches, we discussed the need for multi-factor authentication (MFA) on your Bitcoin accounts and any other accounts you want to protect. Hacks will ...

Just in case the drumbeat to adopt Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) hasn't yet sunk in, a new report from Okta reveals that organizations using Microsoft 365 "Legacy Authentication" (like passwords) ...