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Stay Safer with Multi-Factor Authentication

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Stay safer with MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION (MFA) How to turn on MFA MFA provides extra security for our online accounts and apps. This security could be a code sent via text or email or generated by an app, or biometrics like fingerprints and facial recognition. Using MFA confirms our identities when logging into our accounts. How to turn on MFA MFA provides extra security for our online accounts and apps. This security could be a code sent via text or email or generated by an app, or biometrics like fingerprints and facial recognition. Using MFA confirms our identities when logging into our accounts. Look for and turn on MFA It may be called two-factor authentication, two-step verification or similar. Confirm Select how to provide extra login security, such as by entering a code sent via text or email or using facial recognition.

We encourage you to turn on multi-factor authentication for every online account or app that offers it. As time goes on, more websites and applications will offer multi-factor authentication, but it might not be turned on by default. Here are some guides on how to enable it for popular services: