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Microsoft: 2-factor authentication blocks 99.9% of account attacks effectively
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What is the best protection against attacks on accounts? Microsoft believes that it is 2-factor authentication, and the company has stats to back it up. Microsoft says that 2-factor authentication, sometimes also called two-step verification or multi-factor authentication, blocks 99.9% of automated attacks.

Microsoft notices over 300 million fraudulent sign-in attempts every day to company cloud services, 167 million daily malware attacks, and over 4000 daily ransomware attacks against organizations.

The most effective form of protection against automated attacks is to enable multi-factor authentication if the service supports it according to Microsoft. Not all services do but if it is supported, users should enable it to protect their accounts against the majority of attacks automatically says Microsoft.
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