This is the good news about today’s MFA environment – there is no shortage of options to choose from. For most organisations, this will mean using the smartphone as the core authenticator, either running an app or using some form of biometrics or FIDO2 WebAuthn. For privileged users, this might be backed up with the gold standard of a FIDO U2F hardware token.


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