For more information on why I recommend TOTP over other forms of 2FA (sort of) or what criteria we use to select our apps, please visit the website. As such, this review should not be considered a “versus” but rather simply a review of the recommended 2FA apps, but combined for simplicity. These apps are only available on their respective devices, so you can’t use Aegis for iOS or Raivo for Android. These days, there are currently only two 2FA apps I recommend: Aegis for Android and Raivo for iOS. While there are many forms of 2FA out there, I tend to focus on TOTP for most readers. Even if your password gets exposed, your account is still safe. Microsoft claims that it stops 99.9% of unauthorized account access, and in a world where data breaches are beyond common, it’s important to have every advantage you can to protect your accounts. All 2FA is MFA, but not all MFA is 2FA.ĢFA is one of the most powerful steps you can take to protect your account from unauthorized access. When you combine more than one form of authentication, you get “multifactor authentication,” or MFA. Hence the need for more than one method of authentication at the same time. Data breaches expose usernames and passwords all the time.
Usernames and passwords are a form of authentication if you don’t know the username and/or password, you cannot be authenticated, or prove that you are authorized to access whatever it is you’re attempting to access. 2FA is an abbreviation for “two-factor authentication,” which is basically what it sounds like.
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