These very reasons and the popularity among businesses make it rather a big target for all kinds of greedy criminals. Being an online platform, with tons of sensitive corporate data stored in the cloud, Office 365 is a low hanging fruit for those hackers. Microsoft understands the vulnerability and supports Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The only bulletproof way of fully protecting your info on a cloud server is Office 365 2 factor authentication with a hardware token. In this article, we will give you the detailed instructions on setting up protection with hardware multi-factor authentication token for Office 365<\/strong> that can be connected without a premium license<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For this task you will need a programmable hardware TOTP token Protectimus Slim NFC<\/a> or Protectimus Flex<\/a> that connects to any website like a 2FA authentication app. So we are also going to address the questions one might have on Protectimus Slim NFC and Protectimus Flex hardware OTP tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Azure AD offers a few standard ways to sign in using 2-factor authentication:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n A programmable hardware token is essentially a more protected and trustworthy substitution for a mobile 2FA app. Protectimus Slim NFC and Protectimus Flex tokens are the most popular security tokens that work with Office 365. The tools have no Internet connection, so there is absolutely no way your OTP passwords could be intercepted. Protectimus Slim and Protectimus Flex are reprogrammable, this means one device can be reassigned to a different resource over and over again. The programming goes via NFC<\/a> (Near-field communication) which provides even greater defence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Protectimus Flex differs from Protectimus Slim Microsoft Office 365 MFA hardware token only in design. Protectimus Flex looks like a key fob, while Protectimus Slim looks like a plastic card of a mini or a banking size card format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To protect your data with the Protectimus OATH hardware token for Office 365 MFA you need to own an Office 365 subscription with 2-factor authentication on and an NFC Android phone. A premium Azure license is not required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n | Read also:<\/span> The Pros and Cons of Different Two-Factor Authentication Types and Methods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Setting up hardware 2-factor authentication token for Office 365 is easy and straightforward enough, the steps below summarise the process very precisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s it, now you can log into your Office account the most protected way possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Protectimus Slim NFC and Protectimus Flex are truly an impenetrable protection for your data. The mechanism is contactless, the one-time keys are generated by the device itself, there\u2019s no need for a network connection of any kind and the built-in battery allows for years and years of work. These things make it in essence impossible to overtake the passwords, implant the token with any kind of malware code and, as a result, compromise your security, or steal the sensitive information you keep in your Office 365 apps. Besides, if you happen to lose the hardware token you are far more likely to notice its absence before any harm is done, as opposed to an infected app, which can do all kinds of damage without you noticing it before it\u2019s too late.<\/p> <\/div> Absolutely. You can have branded tokens in you order 1000 tokens and more.<\/p> <\/div> Protectimus Slim NFC and Protectimus Flex support only one secret key (seed), so if you have multiple accounts for which you need MFA you will need different tokens. But these tokens are programmable, thus if you stop using an account you can reprogram the token to be used with another account that needs extra protection.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n\n\n In this article we show how to add a Microsoft Office 365 MFA hardware token Protectimus Slim and Protectimus Flex to your Office 365. You don’t need a premium license to connect these hardware OATH tokens to Office 365 accounts. 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