Many banking apps and social media platforms rely on your mobile number for 2 step authentications. It is personal preference but please do not get confused MFA with 2step authentication. Oh right, so the Microsoft Authenticators App is not only there to provide Mult Factor Authentication (MFA) to your favorite work productivity apps but it is also used for any sensitive data platform out there on the web. What’s the reason for the Microsoft Authenticator App Existence? Yes, there’s the stability aspect of patching but there’s also finding and patching holes that bad actors can exploit. You also see patching become a part of life that is necessary for good software from going bad. You can see in the way you have to beg for permissions for everything action in you performed in the Windows environments. While Microsoft ecosystem use to be one of a very open environments, they have gone the way of Apple in many aspects and locked things down. Many of you now either heard in the news or are a couple degrees from knowing some individual or business who have got struck by ransomware. It’s tightly integrated functionality with Outlook Mobile is a blessing for most business users and a curse for IT administrators. While it is not the first MFA app, it is certainly making its mark. Microsoft Authenticator App has been around for several years now.

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