Ransomware threats are now targeting increasingly more organizations. IT teams must swiftly take proactive steps to protect data and applications, which have become a high-value target for attackers. One of these steps is enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible, especially in the backup environment. MFA is an effective method of security that validates a combination of factors requested of the user, with the most common one being their credentials, and the second (or more) being a Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP), biometric, or a key card. MFA can most easily be understood as something you know and something you have. This additional authentication mechanism mitigates cyber attacks when an account is compromised, and reduces unauthorized access, since the attacker needs to pass the required combination of factors during authentication.To read this article in full, please click her
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