What is Multifactor Authentication?
Multifactor authentication is additional authentication used for identity verification in addition to passwords. This enhances identity verification and aims to reduce the risk of identity fraud.
For security reasons, multifactor authentication is required to turn on cloud services. If you turn on cloud services, multifactor authentication will be necessary to sign in to other services that use your account.
You will be asked for additional authentication (multifactor authentication) after entering your Microsoft 365 account and password.
Never approve authentication requests received when you are not trying to sign in to your account. Change your Microsoft 365 password immediately if you receive an authentication request any time other than when you are trying to sign in to your account.
Software That Uses Multifactor Authentication
・Microsoft OneDrive
・Microsoft Teams
If you enable multifactor authentication for the above software, multifactor authentication will also be applied to the below software that uses your Microsoft 365 account.
・Microsoft Office
・Webex Personal Rooms
・Zoom Personal Meetings
・Other software for which you sign in using your Kanazawa University Microsoft 365 account
Setting Up Multifactor Authentication and How to Sign In
The three main sign-in methods for multifactor authentication are listed below. Please set up multifactor authentication after selecting the default method from these three.
We recommend that you set up several sign-in methods so that you can use these when you cannot use your default sign-in method.
Please refer to <Changing Your Sign-In Method> for how to change or delete your sign-in method.
1. Mobile app verification (using smartphone or tablet) *Recommended.
2. Phone call verification (smartphone, feature phone, landline)
3. SMS verification (smartphone, feature phone)
Also, please check the below.
– What to do when you have lost the phone you use for verification