Good morning
Over the past several months,
you have no doubt heard alarming new stories
about the damage inflicted on organizations
of all sizes by ransomware and other attacks.
These attacks inflict damage, both monetary and psychological.
People find their files destroyed and unavailable,
and companies have paid millions of dollars to make their organization whole.
In many cases what the “bad actors” want is access to your account.
If an unauthorized person can use your account,
he can send email as you, initiate spam as you,
and if he has access to your machine on campus,
he can not only damage information on your machine,
but he can also use your machine
as a launching pad for inflicting much wider damage.
Having an unauthorized person with your credentials is never a good thing.
Often, the only thing between you and a bad actor
is your account and your password.
Bad actors are very good at figuring out people’s passwords.
To make this more difficult,
many organizations use something called,
“multi-factor authentication.”
Typically, when you access your account you provide an account name and a password.
The password is considered one “factor.”
It is something you know.
In multi-factor authentication, you must provide more than one “factor,”
and the second factor is often something you have.
For most of us, that something is a cell phone.
So, now, to use your account,
you must know your account ID,
the password,
and you must have access to your cell phone
to make a response from the device only you should have.
You can see how this makes the bad actor’s life more difficult.
Even if he knows your password,
the chances are he does not have
your cell phone in his possession
and without both “factors,” access is denied.
In late June Rio Hondo College
experienced a rash of account login attempts.
We were being probed for accounts to violate.
To stop this probing,
the administration decided to switch from one-factor
to two-factor authentication.
This required setting up your cell phone as a second factor.
Many of you have completed this process,
but if you have not,
the rest of this video will demonstrate
how two factor authentication works
at Rio Hondo College.
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Hi! My name is Sable Cantus
and i'm the Technology Systems Trainer
here at Rio Hondo College
In this video I'm going to demonstrate registering and configuring
MFA or Multi-Factor Authentication for your Rio Hondo College Microsoft account
You have the option to enter six digits each time you log in
or to have Microsoft send you a push notification to your smart device
using the Microsoft Authenticator app
In the first series of steps we're going to configure
text messaging as a verification method
Let's start by signing into our Rio Hondo account
and we'll see that more information is required
So let's go ahead and click next and start configuring
We're going to be prompted to choose how we want to add our additional verification
We can add an authentication phone, an office phone, or the mobile app
Start with the authentication phone
I'll choose United States and I'll put in my text message phone number
And I will ask Microsoft to send me a code by text message
I just received my text message and I'm going to enter the six digits now
and then click verify
I don't need this password right now I'm just going to click done
And this time I'm going to get a code to my cell phone
And now we are logged in
and we have used a text message as our verification method
Thank you
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