What is two-factor authentication(2FA)?

What is two-factor authentication(2FA)?

Two factor authentication is a security feature where a customer needs to fulfill the two authentication criteria to login into a system.
One authentication will be OTP/Device ID, and another one will be the DOB/PIN depending on the scenarios of login set by the users.

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