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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