­Multi-Factor Authentication: When Usernames and Passwords Just Aren’t Enough

Multi-Factor Authentication: When Usernames and Passwords Just Aren’t Enough

July 2, 2015 Vince Lo Faso Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Using a username and password combination is a common, modern everyday activity. We use it to log into a desktop or laptop at work, we log into various application systems to perform business tasks or we log into Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications remotely. For personal endeavors we use username/password combinations for Facebook, Flickr or other social media websites. The username and password authentication is generally “good enough” for these scenarios.