Dropping the ball on MFA
At the February Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group, Eric Woodruff (@msft_hiker), author of Eric On Identity, gave an excellent presentation on the topic of passwordless authentication. This struck a chord with my recent experience in the field, particularly in terms of the new Authentication Strengths feature in Azure AD. This post is based on my Q&A with Eric and feedback I submitted to the Azure AD team (thanks to the brilliant @merill for that) and sets it in a wider picture, namely that we’re making better technology than we’re using; there seems to be a gap in terms of getting the security we know we need into widespread practice....