Category: MFA

Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the Microsoft 365 admin center significantly reduces the risk of account compromise, prevents unauthorized access, and safeguards sensitive data. By adding an extra layer of protection beyond standard username and password authentication, MFA makes it harder for attackers to steal data and prevents unauthorized access from phishing, credential stuffing, brute …

When this will happen: Beginning May 8, 2023 How this affects your organization: To prevent accidental approvals, admins can require users to enter a number displayed on the sign-in screen when approving an MFA request in the Microsoft Authenticator app. This feature is critical to protecting against MFA fatigue attacks which are on the rise. …

Microsoft has begun the rollout of security defaults to existing customers who haven’t yet rolled out security defaults or Azure AD Conditional Access.  Microsoft introduced security defaults in October 2019 for new tenants, ensuring that new customers would be created and maintained with basic security hygiene in place – especially MFA and modern auth requirements – regardless …

Since iOS 11.3.1, the native mail app can support Modern Authentication. Modern Authentication is a prerequisite to apply MFA on the user. So, if you use Modern Authentication, and that you require MFA for your users when they sign in to a O365 service, and that you have disabled ActiveSync – because it is a …