Double Security with Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

By Ranggi R.

Published on January 06 2023

What happens if you close the door but don’t lock it? or if you feel safe by locking the door but not locking the gate?

Yes. Of course, crime opportunities can occur. especially if the security applied is very minimal.


It’s the same with maintaining the confidentiality of your data. Because crime can also occur in the digital world. By adding another layer of security, it doubles the security.

Get to Know More About Digital Crimes

In the digitalization era, we often hear about data leaks against multiple accounts. One of the most common cyber attacks is email hacking/email phishing.

How Do They Do It?

This email-based scam attempts to trick victims by impersonating, among other things, employees or legitimate financial services institutions. The goal is to trick victims into providing personal data, account data, or financial data.

Crime suspects will send messages containing links to fake websites. If this attack is successful, they may find your private data. Moreover, your private data can be stolen by keystroke logging. Often referred to as ‘keylogging‘, this is the act of recording every keyboard interaction as well as device activity.

The goal, of course, is to gain access to your personal information.

Prevent it with Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

In the digitalization era, we often hear about data leaks against multiple accounts. One of the most common cyber attacks is email hacking/email phishing.

This email-based scam attempts to trick victims by impersonating, among other things, employees or legitimate financial services institutions. The goal is to trick victims into providing personal data, account data, or financial data.

So, apart from entering your username and password to log in, you will also be asked for specific verification according to the settings that have been previously selected.

This verification process consists of several methods, some of them are:

1) Information known to the user

For example passwords, PIN (Personal Identification Number), pattern lock, or other secret codes.

2) Information owned by the user

For example, the mobile number or smartphone app used to confirm the authentication request.

3)Biometrics

For example, scan fingerprints, faces, eyes, voices, and many more.

Indeed, there are still some violations of this two-factor authentication.

However, until now, two-factor authentication is the best option you can make to secure your account.