To better protect users, Microsoft Authenticator now helps generate complex and unique passwords directly in the app.
While all Microsoft accounts support passwordless authentication (the preferred way to authenticate!), we understand not all identity providers do.
It also helps users remember and autofill passwords and other personal info for any app or website. Microsoft Authenticator secures users with passwordless authentication, push notifications, time-based one-time passwords (TOTPs) and security alerts. Stay safe, and as always, we’d love to hear from you!Īlex Weinert (Twitter: everyone! I’m Rajat Luthra, a product manager in the Microsoft Authenticator team, and I’m delighted to share these new capabilities with you! Here’s Rajat to tell you how the Authenticator can help! But if you must use a password, strong, randomly generated passwords are best. As always – and as Rajat points out below – passwordless authentication is best, and always enable MFA where possible. Strong, randomly generated passwords disrupt these attacks. Rainbow table and dictionary attacks also depend on common words and phrases in passwords. The most common way passwords are compromised is by trying common passwords (like “Password123!”) against long lists of accounts (called “Password Spray”). In this blog, Rajat Luthra is going to walk you through the latest and greatest in the Authenticator – the ability to generate a strong, random password for you.
This feedback has led directly to cool capabilities like location-based access control, authentication context, seeing your login history right in the app, and – of course – password management capabilities. I’m excited to announce the general availability of strong password generation in Microsoft Authenticator ! We get tons of great feedback from you on the Authenticator – which now has over 75M active users and is poised to become the most popular authentication method for enterprises using Azure AD.
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