HHS OCR is the latest federal agency pushing for more widespread adoption of multifactor authentication. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly last October during an address at a FIDO Alliance conference also urged technology vendors to “forcefully nudge” users into MFA. 


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