What Is Modern Authentication?
⏰ OAuth2, aka a "Modern authentication method", removes the burden of authentication from the email program to the email service itself, enabling a number of important security features. ⏰ Modern authentication: how and why To accommodate Microsoft’s “Modern Authentication Methods” in many email programs, you need to set up the entire email account, including both incoming and outgoing mail, using OAuth2. During setup, the program hands off authentication to Microsoft, enabling enhanced security that includes two-factor, passwordless authentication, and more. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/172824 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ Is Passwordless Authentication Safe? ▶ • Is Passwordless Authentication Safe? Chapters 0:00 Modern Authentication 0:30 What is it? 1:40 Passwordless account Authenticate on your app ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-... for even more! #askleo #OAuth2 #authentication

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