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Hello and welcome to Hands-on Tech. I am Micah Micah Sargent and today we are answering a tech

question regarding two-factor authentication or multi-factor authentication and kind of what people

can use, how they can use it, where they can use it, and a little bit more about what's

perhaps safe and what's not.

The question comes in from Stewart, who writes,

will you please do a deep dive into the best two-factor multi-factor authentication apps

and how best to use them?

Also, some banking institutions don't allow use of third-party authentication apps

like Google Authenticator or TooFAS.

Using a text code or phone

call to your mobile phone can leave one exposed to SIM swap security issues. Is it safe to rely on

the bank's own two-factor app like Bank of America's Flagscope Authenticator? So great questions,

absolutely, and something that does come up often.

So let's start by talking about what I saw from the apps that are most often used,

the apps that are well reviewed, and the apps that may be of interest to you.

It starts with some very well-known names, Google Authenticator and Microsoft Authenticator

are two apps that people will have heard of. Microsoft Authenticator kind of went through a period

of time where it was kind of a will-they-won't-they situation of, is it going to stay around? Will people

be able to continue to use it?

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