The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published a guide to help online retailers implement multi-factor protections to reduce fraudulent purchases.The effort arrives as technology companies call on MSPs to embrace two-factor and multi-factor authentication (2FA & MFA) to safeguard internal systems and customer systems.The NCCoE is a public and private partnership working on cybersecurity solutions for specific industries. The 166-page document, entitled Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce, is intended as a primer to show online retailers that it is possible to implement open standards-based technologies to enable Universal Second Factor (U2F) authentication.“As retailers in the United States have adopted chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN (personal identification number) point-of-sale security measures, there have been increases in fraudulent online card-not-present electronic commerce transactions,” the document’s authors (there are six) wrote.Help your organization reduce online fraudulent purchases, including those resulting from the use of credential stuffing to take over accounts. Show customers that the organization is committed to its security. Protect your e-commerce systems. Provide greater situational awareness. Avoid system-administrator-account takeover through phishing. Implement the example solutions by using the step-by-step guide.