Improve your security #11: Enable two-factor authentication

It might sound complicated, but remember that with more security the usability (how easy is to use the service) always suffers a little bit. The reward at the end is that you can sleep in peace that nobody will enter in your universe unless you want that.

We have published a couple of articles in which we present in a step-by-step approach how to configure this authentication method for the most common services like

For even more security tips, check out the entire series.

Sorin Mustaca

IT Security Expert

via Avira – TechBlog http://techblog.avira.com/2013/02/17/improve-your-security-11-enable-two-factor-authentication/en/

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