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One challenge for IT departments across organizations has remained the same for decades: “How do we balance security and productivity while allowing our employees access to corporate resources?”
Due to cloud adoption, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and remote work, this challenge has only increased in complexity. IT departments strive to provide employees the best possible access experience to boost productivity. At the same time, security professionals want to ensure that sufficient access security controls are in place to safeguard corporate data.
To maintain security while minimizing user friction, IT administrators should consider three key factors:
- Making authentication more intuitive and accessible for all users
- Reducing the number of times users need to authenticate based on trust signals
- Decreasing the time and effort it takes for users to enroll and authenticate
Duo’s multi-factor authentication has the reputation of being as easy to use as it is effective. But in the world of technology, change is the only constant. New web frameworks and evolving UX standards have created room for improvement. And Duo is marching ahead with its mission to democratize security by making it easy and effective for organizations of all sizes to secure workforce access.
A Radically Simple New Look and Feel
The new Universal Prompt radically simplifies the authentication experience by displaying a modern and clean UI. The prompt minimizes user friction when performing multi-factor authentication. To facilitate a faster, easier and smoother secure authentication, the new UI displays only the most relevant and imperative information to users. Along with the new authentication prompt, we’ve improved the user enrollment experience, creating a more intuitive new self-service portal experience.
“80% of users say the new authentication experience with Universal Prompt is faster and easier.” —Duo UX Research Team
And that’s not all — accompanying this new prompt experience is the new Duo mobile app to enhance end-to-end authentication workflows. Check out wh
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