How To Solve 2 MFA Challenges: SIM Swapping And MFA Fatigue
SearchSecurity, Friday, December 1,2023
While MFA improves account security, attacks still exploit it. Learn about two MFA challenges -- SIM swapping and MFA fatigue -- and how to mitigate them.
Cybersecurity experts recommend using multifactor authentication to strengthen user accounts and reduce credential theft, but MFA isn't without its challenges. Attackers continuously adapt techniques to bypass MFA and infiltrate user accounts.
Once-popular MFA options, such as text and email, have fallen out of favor as attackers learn how to exploit them, as well users, to gain access to accounts.