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Apr 27, 2021 | STATESCOOP
Nevada lawmakers last week approved a $2 million upgrade to the state’s cybersecurity that will install multi-factor authentication on the state’s existing IT systems.
The state will implement the practice which requires users to enter both a password and at least one additional form of authentication, often a code received by email or text across all agencies via a roughly $1 million-per-year contract with Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing arm.
The project is necessary, officials said, because Nevada’s enterprise IT agency last year processed 65 tickets for compromised accounts and estimated that more than 80% of those tickets were because of weak or stolen passwords.