Tech tips: Multi-factor authentication
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the most effective controls available to maintain the security of our data and systems.
Multi-factor authentication essentially means ‘a method of authentication that uses two or more authentication factors to authenticate a single claimant to a single authentication verifier’ (×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Cyber Security Centre).
An 'authenticaton factor' could be:
- something youÌýknowÌý(such as a password, PIN,Ìýor answer to a question)
- something you haveÌý(such as a token, smartcard or software certificate)
- something you are (such as a fingerprint or iris scan).
Multi-factor authentication is being introduced across a range of systems at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide. You can find out more about how to set it up and how it will work on our MFA page.
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