{"id":128031,"date":"2025-10-20T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=128031"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:30:49","slug":"double-your-online-protection-with-mfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/double-your-online-protection-with-mfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Your Online Protection with MFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Week 3 &#8211; MFA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Even the strongest password can be stolen\u2014but <strong>multi-factor authentication (MFA)<\/strong> adds a powerful extra layer of protection for your accounts. MFA requires something you know (your password) plus something you have (like your phone or a code), making it much harder for anyone else to gain unauthorized access to your account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protects your account and personal information if your password is compromised.<\/li>\n<li>Stops most unauthorized logins, even if someone guesses or steals your password.<\/li>\n<li>Easy to implement but highly effective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\ud83d\udca1 <strong>Pro Tip:<\/strong> Turn on MFA wherever it\u2019s offered\u2014email, social media, banking, and shopping accounts. The more you use it, the safer your digital life becomes.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services<br \/>\nContact: Jason Cox at <a href=\"mailto:jacox@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jacox@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Week 3 &#8211; MFA Even the strongest password can be stolen\u2014but multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds a powerful extra layer of protection for your accounts. MFA requires something you know (your password) plus something you have (like your phone or a code), making it much harder for anyone else to gain unauthorized access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128032,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128031\/revisions\/128032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}