# Incentives and Multifactor Authentication

DevFeed: [Incentives and Multifactor Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/incentives-and-multifactor-authentication-36837.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/incentives-and-multifactor-authentication/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2019-02-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [MFA](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mfa.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Users](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/users.md>)

Tags: [adoption](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adoption.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [users](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/users.md>)

## AI overview

The article explores whether gamification and in-game rewards could improve adoption of multifactor authentication, noting that adoption rates remain poor and asking how effective such incentives might be.

## Source excerpt

What if we gamified security?