#combifactor vs Multifactor #authentication
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Step up authentication and #2fa makes users feel secure. Being asked to get your phone out and swipe an app feels satisfyingly secure but it also gets tiresome awful quick.Iris scanning, facial recognition, Yubikeys, FIDO, SMS one time codes, Google Authenticator, PING swipe, TokenOne and on and on. Asking our customers to take “just one more step”, to thumb scan, to swipe an app, to type a onetime sms code, to look up an email all feels like a reasonable ask until it isn’t.The reality is that consumers and business users resent being asked to jump through more hoops or to learn another authentication procedure. So while the top end of the #security spectrum supports more varied and complex authentication flavours, the average user is fighting even the most basic efforts to secure their (...)