Technically, this has been around for a number of months and allows Azure administrators to use MFA for their accounts when accessing the Windows Azure Management Portal. Multi-Factor Authentication for Azure Administrators Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365Īnd hope that many of our customers will take advantage of the additional security it provides for their access to Office.Īt the same time, we are formally announcing the availability of
We have been very excited to announce the availability of I'm Shawn Bishop, PM on the Windows Azure MFA team. To give you a clear idea of each offer and what it does, I asked Shawn Bishop who is one of the MFA Program Managers here in the Active Directory team to write up a quick post which I've included below.Īs always, any feedback or suggestions you have here would be great! These capabilities are both available for no extra charge to Office 365 & Azure customers.Īnd of course we continue to improve and advance our Windows Azure Multi-Authentication Service, our paid service that offers organizations the ability to protect all their cloud apps and on premise servers in a highly customizable and configurable way. At the same time, we've been working on Multi-Factor Authentication for Azure Administrators which is also now available. The AD team has been working on MFA for Office 365 for over 6 months now and we are excited to be able to make this security capability available to the broad set of Office 365 users. If you missed their announcement, you can read it Yesterday the Office team announced the availability of Multi-Factor Authentication for Office 365.
First published on CloudBlogs on Feb, 11 2014
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