Microsoft reckons that by enabling multi-factor authentication on your Microsoft 365, you can reduce your chances of a hack by 99.9% – I think it’s worth doing, don’t you? In this video, I will show you how to enable multifactor authentication on your Microsoft 365.
Getting your email hacked isn’t great for business. Often hackers will use your email to send dodgy links to your contacts or worse still, they’ll sit in your email and wait for the right opportunity to amend bank details and steal money from you or your customers.
If this happens, it does affect your business reputation.
But by enabling MFA for Microsoft 365, you can all but eliminate this from happening. And MFA is free to do – so it’s a very good idea to get it enabled.
Before I tell you how to do it, just a quick reminder as to what multi-factor authentication is. It can also be known as two-factor authentication.
When we log into a cloud application – it asks us for our username and password. If someone gets our password, then they can log in.
But with 2FA enabled – to log into a cloud application, we would need our username/password and another form of authentication
That other form of authentication is the second level of authentication – the second factor.
The 2nd factor of authentication can be a text message sent to our phone, a phone call to our phone, or an app installed on our phone – which is the one we recommend.
First, you need to enable MFA in the Microsoft 365 admin – after that, watch this video to find out how to configure your account.