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How Two Factor Authentication Improves Your Security Process?

Big organizations and different verticals like healthcare, education and finance are updating their data storage and record management systems to give out-of-the-way access to information on a network or all over the Internet. Even though security is generally offered in many of these systems, many of the security processes like static usernames and passwords are fragile and are not enough to defend against phishing, middleman attacks, malware and different types of fraud attacks. On the other hand, powerful authentication methods like two-factor authentication have been used to fight against the growing number of fraud attacks and have become a norm for authorization in different industries like healthcare and finance. 2FA or authentication using two-factor methods such as using a login, or something you recognize, and a one-time password via a mobile device is a much secured way of verifying a user that is allowed to access data out-of-the-way. Unauthorized users attempting to acc