From the course: Complete Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows 11 for Admins by Microsoft Press
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Securing users - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Complete Guide to Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows 11 for Admins by Microsoft Press
Securing users
- [Instructor] You can consider your user accounts as an entry point into your resources and your data. As a consequence, it's important that when users sign in, they do so in a secure manner. Multi-factor authentication can help here. It requires two or more authentication methods: something that you are, something that you have, and something that you know. So, a combination of those. So the something that you are might be a biometric, like a fingerprint analysis or a facial scan. Something that you have might be a mobile device with your authenticator app, or a cell phone that's able to receive a text message, or indeed the computer that you're sitting at. And we'll talk about Windows Hello in a moment. And then something that you know might be a PIN number or a password. When these are used in combination, you can make, or help to make, the authentication process far more secure. Windows 11 supports both digital certificates and biometric authentication. You can enable biometrics…
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