{"id":65040,"date":"2020-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gticanada.com\/multi-factor-authentication\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T02:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:16:51","slug":"multi-factor-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gticanada.com\/en\/blog\/multi-factor-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION: ACCESSIBLE AND NECESSARY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWhen it comes to data protection, banking institutions and large corporations have long since adopted multi-factor authentication solutions to ensure more secure access to their data. The sheer cost of these authentication solutions has long disqualified SMEs. Today, however, these solutions are becoming accessible and affordable for SMEs, and certainly necessary in this age of teleworking.<\/p>\n

80% of security breaches involve compromised passwords.<\/strong>
\nData Breach Investigation Report 2019, Verizon – via DBIR Interactive<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)? It is a security system that uses multiple authentication methods, based on different categories of information, to verify the identity of the user who wishes to log in or perform a transaction. This type of authentication<\/a> combines at least two independent pieces of identification information about what the user knows (their password), what they have (a token or cell phone) and what they are (a biometric verification). The purpose of the MFA is to provide multiple layers of protection and to make it more difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to a target, such as a physical location, computer device, network or database. Thus, even if a hacker were to succeed in deciphering one of the factors, he would still have at least one obstacle to overcome before reaching his target.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the biggest problems with the traditional login and password mode is keeping the database of these passwords up to date. Whether it is encrypted or not, if an attacker gets his hands on this database, he will have a source that allows him to verify his hypotheses at a speed that has no other limit than that of his hardware resources. In other words, decrypting a password database is only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

There are several multi-factor authentication technologies, including the following:<\/p>\n

Il existe plusieurs technologies d\u2019authentification multi facteurs, dont voici quelques exemples:<\/p>\n