All students are required by March 23 to sign up for two-factor authentification.
MARIANA CHAVEZ chavezmg@lopers.unk.edu
Starting March 23, all
University of Nebraska
students will be required
to sign up for the two-
factor authentification. It’s
a second level of security
for all university-associated
accounts. If students don’t
sign up by the deadline,
they will be locked out of all
accounts associated with their
university email addresses.
Two-factor authentification
is set to help eliminate
compromised emails, or
hacked emails. Compromised
emails have always been
an issue within the UNK
email system. Last semester,
over 700 emails were
compromised.
DuoMobile is an app that can be downloaded onto any mobile device. It takes less than two minutes to sign up for the app. It’s set to send a notification via a push pin to your mobile device, a text or phone call when the account is logged into.
After the verification steps,
students will be able to access
all accounts and can stay
logged in for 12 hours if need
be.
“Even if someone does
figure out your email or
password, they won’t be able
to get into your account
because they will need your
mobile device to approve the
login,” said Ayush Dhungel, IT
student worker. DuoMobile
will also work for those who
do not have smartphones or
tablets.
If students are intimidated
by this process, there are
resources they can turn to
for guidance. Two-Factor-
Tuesday is set to help students
sign up for the app and
further explain how it works
and why it is needed.
If students cannot sign up
during Two-Factor-Tuesday,
they can go to the UNK IT
office for help to seting up a
DuoMobile account.