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Microsoft Localization. Microsoft PnP. Healthcare and Life Sciences. Internet of Things IoT. Enabling Remote Work. Small and Medium Business. Humans of IT. Green Tech. MVP Award Program. Video Hub Azure. Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication MFA solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys.

The best security key. While robust passwords help you secure your valuable online accounts, hardware-based two-factor authentication takes that security to the next level. Read More. For the past year, Weinert has been advocating on Microsoft's behalf, urging users to embrace and enable MFA for their online accounts. Citing internal Microsoft statistics, Weinert said in a blog post last year that users who enabled multi-factor authentication MFA ended up blocking around But in a follow-up blog post today, Weinert says that if users have to choose between multiple MFA solutions, they should stay away from telephone-based MFA.

The Microsoft exec cites several known security issues, not with MFA, but with the state of the telephone networks today. The alternative to two-way SMS or the mobile app is a phone call. However, the Microsoft Authenticator app is the recommended verification method. No, just two-way SMS is being deprecated. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Additional information Published by Microsoft Corporation. Published by Microsoft Corporation.

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