Can I refuse MS Authenticator?

Martin@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 208 points –

So my company decided to migrate office suite and email etc to Microsoft365. Whatever. But for 2FA login they decided to disable the option to choose "any authenticator" and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers. Is there any valid reason why they would do this, like it's demonstrably safer? Or is this a battle I can pick to shield myself a little from MS?

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≥ and force Microsoft Authenticator on the (private) phones of both employees and volunteers.

Refuse to use the service until they provide you with a work appointed phone. Volunteers admitedly have a more difficult time with that but as someone else said you can indeed do text/call options.

I work for a global company and help manage MFA for everyone...I use Google's authenticator on my personal phone as they didn't give me a work phone.

I still don't understand why a hardware token isn't being used. It's such a low cost option when compared to buying a phone and plan for a user.

Because you can’t call someone on a hardware token.

But not everyone needs to have a work phone, some just need to authenticate

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