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Microsoft sets multi-factor authentication as default for all Azure AD customers.

In a new blog post, the company revealed that it's adding multi-factor authentication as the default security setting for existing Azure customers who haven't changed that setting on their own.

The default MFA setting has already been in effect for new Azure AD customers since October 2019.

More than 30 million organizations have been operating with this default setting, which Microsoft said had led to 80% fewer compromises for that group as a whole.

Microsoft will start rolling out the new settings to organizations that it considers a good fit for them, meaning those that haven't adjusted the defaults, aren't using Conditional Access or aren't using legacy authentication clients.

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