The phrase "authentication means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or mechanisms for verifying identity or access in a system or process.
Example: "The system employs various authentication means to ensure that only authorized users can access sensitive information."
Alternatives: "authentication methods" or "authentication mechanisms".
The institution said the authentication means the artwork is the first Monet painting to be held in a Finnish public collection.
Two factor authentication means you need something extra besides just a password to access a site or service – something you have, something you know or something you are.
We carefully selected hardware and software components to ensure that balance, and will continue to evaluate fingerprint and other biometric authentication means moving forward.
For a while, enabling two-factor authentication meant using clunky, hardware-based token authentication to ensure that a user was who they said they were.
The company plans to use "a network of professional authenticators," which means authentication is not be done in-house, but rather through partners.
Both Twitter and Google recommend the use of two-factor authentication, which means anyone logging on to their account from a new computer has also to enter a code sent to their mobile phone.
"Something you have," as the second authentication factor, means that the user has to have a hardware type (e.g., OTP device) or software type (e.g., digital certificate) of authentication token.
The good news is DMARC has become a nearly universal standard of authentication, which means that once a domain publishes a DMARC policy, it applies to all incoming email received by almost every major email service provider around the world.
The new technology is basically a form of two-factor authentication, which means that the user is identifying himself or herself not only with their username and password combination, but also with something they have on their person – that is, their mobile phone.
Somewhat surprisingly, only 30% had not heard of this kind of authentication which means that companies are doing a decent job of making people aware, but not a good enough job of registering users for such security features.
The LastPass login has an optional extra level of security with two-factor authentication, which means you can set it up so you have to give the site a secondary form of proof (like a code sent to your mobile phone) to get into your account.
