Azure Active Directory multi-factor authentication keeps your business data safe!

The IT trend of 2023 is cybersecurity. Start from individuals entering your infrastructure and implement two-step verification Azure Active Directory.

If you follow the trends in the IT world, you probably did not miss that in addition to entrusting more and more everyday activities and more complex tasks to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity is really becoming a “trending matter”. While the label “trendy” sounds a bit pejorative, it's a direction we applaud. Let's see how to cybersecurity look from the ground up and what role two-step verification plays in it.

But increased attention to cybersecurity wasn't born out of the blue. This is a reaction to Increased number of cyberattacks. We must have been interested in cyber security. Inaction would jeopardize our privacy, our assets, sensitive data and the future of our business. Whereas previously cyberattackers were largely ardent geeks inventing malware “for fun”, today it's mostly about data and money.

Benefits:

• Increased attention to cybersecurity and the use of multi-factor authentication as a fundamental step to secure the company's infrastructure can reduce the risk of cyberattacks and secure sensitive data and company assets
• As a result digitizing and the need for companies to be online needs to pay attention to cybersecurity — this is the only way to effectively reduce the risk of attacks
• Azure Active Directory multi-factor authentication is easy to implement and very user-friendly, which can help increase the security of your business infrastructure and minimize the risk of attacks

With digitalization, you need to think about cybersecurity

There is also an increased need to focus on cybersecurity at the corporate level as a result of digitalization. In recent years, the vast majority of large and small companies have had to go digital. And it can be assumed that this trend will continue. Therefore, it is important to ensure that sufficient security. And when it comes to security, it pays to proceed nicely from the individual. You can secure your company's infrastructure, but if every user doesn't adequately protect their access to it, your security is as leaky as an emmental.

Secure your data with an individual — secure password and two-step verification

Instruct your employees and everyone who has access to your system to create secure password — sufficient long, combining different characters and unique. But even a great complex password needs a fuse. Set up with you in the company Mandatory two-step verification when logging in.

Multi-factor authentication will require users of your network login in addition to the password with another step — confirmation in the authentication application, writing the code from the SMS message, etc. You don't have to worry about multi-factor authentication being something new for your employees. Today, this method of login is quite common when logging into, for example, online banking.

Multi-factor authentication with azure active directory

Two-step verification Azure Active Directory helps protect access to data and applications and provides an additional “fuse” for the security of your data. In your business, you can implement multi-factor authentication with conditional access tailored to your specific needs. Do not underestimate the role of Your employees play in your company's cybersecurity. It is enough to get a few of your employees elected to the corporate ERP the same login details they have for their private email, streaming service, and coffee e-shop, and it's down to the problem.

Increased attention to cybersecurity and the use of multi-factor authentication as a fundamental step to secure corporate infrastructure can help businesses reduce the risk of cyberattacks and secure the organization's sensitive data and assets.

Introducing two-step verification Azure Active Directory eliminates the impact of weak or non-unique passwords. Because, what we're going to talk about — even the best training doesn't force all employees to create a secure password. Some will still keep their favorite existing ones — the name of the dog, the date of birth, the names of the children...

The second “factor” in multifactor authentication is, as we say, either something you have, or something you are. Sounds mysterious, doesn't it? But it's not such a mystery. In the group something you have falls authentication using some thing, such as a mobile phone or a dongle. Something that you use directly from the person of the user, such as a fingerprint or a facial scan.

With Azure Active Directory multi-factor authentication, you can use the following other forms of verification:

• Microsoft Authenticator App
• Windows Hello for Business
• FIDO2 Security Key
• OATH Hardware Token (Preview)
• OATH Software Token
• SMS
• Voice call

The security of the IT infrastructure must undoubtedly be comprehensive. Start from the individual and build security further. Do not build an impregnable fortress on flimsy foundations. Want more information about Azure Active Directory? Contact our specialists.