Why MFA is the cheapest security win there is
One setting blocks the overwhelming majority of account takeovers.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is free or nearly free, takes minutes to turn on, and stops the attack that hits small businesses most: someone logging in with a stolen password.
01 Passwords alone are already lost
Billions of username-and-password pairs are already circulating from past breaches. If your staff reuse passwords — and most people do — assume the password is known. MFA adds a second step the attacker doesn't have.
02 What "second factor" means
After the password, the login asks for something else: a prompt on your phone, a code from an app, or a hardware key. An attacker with only the password is stopped at the door.
03 Not all MFA is equal
App-based prompts and hardware keys are stronger than codes sent by text, which can be intercepted. We set up the strongest method that's practical for your team.
04 Turn it on everywhere that matters
Email first — it's the master key that resets everything else — then banking, your cloud suite, and any admin accounts. We enforce it across your whole cloud tenant as standard.
If you do a single security thing this month, enforce MFA on email. It's the highest return for the least effort in all of IT security.
We roll MFA out as part of Cloud & Microsoft 365.