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How To Turn On Two-Factor Authentication For Emails?

PowerDMARC, Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

Email has been one of the most widely used ways of sharing data among professionals. Therefore, hackers have also become experts at retrieving data by breaching email security.

The problem arises when companies don't pay much attention to updating their email security methods and end up getting scammed.

As recorded by the Internet Crime Report, in 2020, there were 19,369 complaints about the Business Email Compromise (BEC). It resulted in adjusted losses exceeding $1.8 billion.

Two-factor authentication is built to make email accounts secure by adding a layer of security over username and password. The second layer of security can be anything like a fingerprint, a code, or a security token.

Here's a guide on how to set up Two-factor authentication for emails and why it is important to make your accounts secure.

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