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🐡 Significantly Enhance Your Account Security with Multi-Factor Authentication

Multi-Factor Authentication For Your Business

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Jeff Nantin & Patricia Bama
October 11, 2023

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Welcome to the adahi.tech private list bringing you resources for cybersecurity awareness month.

Stay safer with MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION (MFA).

Turn on multifactor authentication (MFA) and use it on any site that offers it. MFA provides an extra layer of security in addition to a password when logging into accounts and apps, such as a face scan or a code sent by text. Using MFA will significantly reduce the risk of being hacked. 

🔐 Follow these easy MFA steps on each account
🔑 Let’s use MFA Everywhere!
✅ Resources your organization could use

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🔐 Follow these easy MFA steps on each account

How to turn on MFA:

MFA provides extra security for our online accounts and apps. This security could be a code sent via text or email or generated by an app, or biometrics like fingerprints and facial recognition. Using MFA confirms our identities when logging into our accounts.

💡Follow these tips:

Go to Settings

It may be called Account Settings, Settings & Privacy or similar

Look for and turn on MFA

It may be called two-factor authentication, two-step verification or similar.

Confirm

Select how to provide extra login security, such as by entering a code sent via text or email or using facial recognition.

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🔑 Let’s use MFA Everywhere!

Multi-factor authentication adds an entire layer of security on your important accounts beyond your password. Your data is precious and important – multiplying its protection is a great idea. Let’s use multi-factor authentication everywhere!

After setting up MFA, logging in may require completing the MFA security step to prove our identities. It only takes a moment but makes us significantly safer from malicious hackers! Turn on MFA for every online account or app that offers it. Doing so will protect our:

💡Using MFA is one way to secure our world.

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✅ Resources your organization could use

Copy the content above and send an email out to your organization to help them create strong passwords and use a password manager. The resources below are great for your company communication tool like Slack, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp groups. Keep them engaged by mixing up the content!

Here is a link to Week 2’s resources you could use and share within your organization!

Week 2: Multi-Factor Authentication - Google Drive

Tip sheets, sample social media posts, and graphics.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1liNznN8K4l0hceycVNABosdM9ygXf1R1?usp=drive_link

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We hope this was helpful, pass it on and have a good weekend!

Be safe & Adahi,
-Jeff and the adahi.tech team

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