{"id":75458,"date":"2014-10-23T18:35:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=75458"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:24:01","slug":"microsoft-expands-on-windows-10-security-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-expands-on-windows-10-security-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft expands on Windows 10 security features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows-10.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 10<\/a> will have <strong>two-factor authentication<\/strong> by default, replacing the normal single password system that is no longer seriously secure.<\/p>\n<p>Two Factor authentication means as well as a password, you need a second piece of information to get into an account. Typically, this is a code sent to your mobile device &#8211; it&#8217;s much less likely that a hacker can get your password and access to your second device.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on the Windows for Business blog, Microsoft&#8217;s Jim Alkove explains how this will work in Windows 10. You will choose a device plus a PIN, or even biometric data such as a fingerprint, to be able to enter Windows.<\/p>\n<p>You can try out upcoming features like this by trying the <strong>Windows 10 Technical Preview<\/strong>. This is an early version of the next Windows which you can use until April 15th 2015. It&#8217;s not advisable to install it on your main machine, as it may have bugs and be more prone to crashing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/windows-10.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the Windows 10 Technical Preview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/business\/2014\/10\/22\/windows-10-security-and-identity-protection-for-the-modern-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"First update for Windows 10 Technical Preview rolling out now\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/first-update-for-windows-10-technical-preview-rolling-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First update for Windows 10 Technical Preview rolling out now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows 10: the 10 most wanted features\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/windows-10-the-10-most-wanted-features\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 10 Technical Preview gets a share button for File Explore<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Windows 10 Technical Preview gets a share button for File Explorer\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/windows-10-technical-preview-gets-a-share-button-for-file-explorer\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Windows 10 Technical Preview gets a share button for File Explorer<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 10 will have two-factor authentication by default, replacing the normal single password system that is no longer seriously secure. Two Factor authentication means as well as a password, you need a second piece of information to get into an account. Typically, this is a code sent to your mobile device &#8211; it&#8217;s much less &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-expands-on-windows-10-security-features\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft expands on Windows 10 security features&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2351],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-75458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329936,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions\/329936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=75458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}