October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and if there's one change worth making this month, it's turning on multi-factor authentication, or MFA, for your business accounts. It's free on most platforms, it takes minutes per person, and it blocks a huge share of the account takeovers that start with a stolen or guessed password.
MFA simply means that signing in takes two things: your password and a second proof, usually a code or prompt on your phone. Even if a password leaks in a data breach or gets typed into a fake login page, an attacker without that second step can't get in.
Start with the accounts that matter most: email, banking, payroll, cloud file storage, and anything with remote access to your network. Email should be first, because it's the key that resets every other password. If your team pushes back, remind them it's the same kind of extra step their bank already asks for.
Is MFA turned on for your business email today, or is it still on the to-do list?
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