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Seven Ways To Harden Our MFA Deployments

SC Media, Thursday, October 9th, 2025

When multifactor authentication (MFA) became mainstream, the cybersecurity community embraced the technology as a silver bullet to a generations-old problem.

It was supposed to solve our issues with credential-based attacks like password sprays and single factor credential compromise.

But those hopes were short-lived. Threat actors adapted their tactics, and MFA lost its reputation as a panacea for protecting authentication.

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