You know your business needs multi-factor authentication, but chances are you see a lot of pushback from your employees because of how inconvenient it is for their work. In an effort to please everyone, you implement SMS authentication out of sheer convenience, but the innovation of SIM swapping means that this method of MFA is a vulnerability rather than a security solution. A hacker doesn’t need to steal your phone; they just need to trick a customer service representative at your mobile carrier to port your phone number to a new SIM card they control. If your second factor can be stolen so easily, what’s your business supposed to do?


