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title: Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization - Azure Active Directory
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description: Enable Azure MFA for your organization based on your license
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title: Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization - Azure Active Directory
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description: Learn about the available features of Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization based on your license model
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services: multi-factor-authentication
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ms.service: active-directory
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ms.subservice: authentication
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 12/06/2019
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ms.date: 03/18/2020
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ms.author: iainfou
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author: iainfoulds
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ms.collection: M365-identity-device-management
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# Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization
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# Overview of Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization
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There are multiple ways to enable Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for your Azure Active Directory (AD) users based on the licenses that your organization owns.
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There are multiple ways to enable Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for your Azure Active Directory (AD) users based on the licenses that your organization owns.
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Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use MFA.
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Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9% less likely to be compromised if you use multi-factor authentication (MFA).
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So how does your organization turn on multi-factor authentication even for free, before becoming a statistic?
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So how does your organization turn on MFA even for free, before becoming a statistic?
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## Free option
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Customers who are utilizing the free benefits of Azure AD can use [security defaults](../fundamentals/concept-fundamentals-security-defaults.md) to enable multi-factor authentication in their environment.
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## Office 365
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## Office 365 Business Premium, E3, or E5
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For customers with Office 365, there are two options:
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-[Security defaults](concept-fundamentals-security-defaults.md) can be enabled through Azure AD to protect all of your users with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication.
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- If your organization requires more granularity in providing multi-factor authentication, your Office licenses include [per-user MFA](../authentication/howto-mfa-userstates.md) capabilities. Per-user MFA is enabled and enforced on each user individually by administrators.
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* Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is either enabled or disabled for all users, for all sign-in events. There is no ability to only enable multi-factor authentication for a subset of users, or only under certain scenarios. Management is through the Office 365 portal.
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* For an improved user experience, upgrade to Azure AD Premium P1 or P2 and use Conditional Access. For more information, see secure Office 365 resources with multi-factor authentication.
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## Azure AD Premium P1
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For customers with Azure AD Premium P1 or similar licenses that include this functionality such as Enterprise Mobility + Security E3, Microsoft 365 F1, or Microsoft 365 E3:
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The recommendation is to use [Conditional Access policies](../conditional-access/concept-conditional-access-policy-common.md) for the best user experience.
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Use [Azure AD Conditional Access](../conditional-access/overview.md)to prompt users for multi-factor authentication during certain scenarios or events to fit your business requirements.
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## Azure AD Premium P2
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For customers with Azure AD Premium P2 or similar licenses that include this functionality such as Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 or Microsoft 365 E5:
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The recommendation is to use [Conditional Access policies](../conditional-access/concept-conditional-access-policy-common.md)along with [Identity Protection](../identity-protection/overview-v2.md) risk policies for the best user experience and enforcement flexibility.
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Provides the strongest security position and improved user experience. Adds [risk-based Conditional Access](../conditional-access/howto-conditional-access-policy-risk.md)to the Azure AD Premium P1 features that adapts to user's patterns and minimizes multi-factor authentication prompts.
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## Authentication methods
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| Verification code from mobile app or hardware token || X |
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| Text message to phone || X |
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| Call to phone || X |
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| App passwords || X**|
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** App passwords are only available in per-user MFA with legacy authentication scenarios only if enabled by administrators.
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## Next steps
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[Azure AD pricing page](https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/active-directory/)
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To get started, see the tutorial to [secure user sign-in events with Azure Multi-Factor Authentication](../authentication/tutorial-enable-azure-mfa.md).
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For more information on licensing, see [Features and licenses for Azure Multi-Factor Authentication](../authentication/concept-mfa-licensing.md).
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