Opting out of new security changes

That was my first thought too, for exactly the same reasons. May be helpful for some businesses (but if they don't already have policies in place for when you move away from your desk you've got to wonder). But I work from home, husband/wife business, no one else is here - it should be up to us to manage our own risks, not an across-the-board, one-size-fits-all and quite significant change affecting all users. Just more steps/time when clients are calling and you're looking for their history etc as they talk. 
Happy enough with 2FA once every 24 hours, but just like with Outlook or other apps/platforms open during work hours, we manage risks as we need to. Will we be asked for facial recognition on every login next, just to be sure?? LOL 

MYOB - please add an opt-out function. 

It seems that the ATO and/or MYOB don't understand what a bookkeeper's day really looks like... we're in and out of working in MYOB all during the day, but often with 30 mins or more inactivity between jobs, or even between 2 different company files.  This is terrible news!

Yes, an opt-out function would be welcomed.

Hi Ellemm 

You might find this article interesting, esp with regard to the ATO's role in this saga. Author is not an ATO 'apologist', it's just that it might not be the ATO at fault here.

Regards

Gavin

I was also disturbed that I needed to use 2FA to login to the community also.......!  Must be some serious security risks in this portal to require 2FA

This is becoming a joke... and please, when is MYOB going to fix the problem with emailing remittances????

Surely with the EOM approaching this needs to be addressed.

Hi Mike_MYOB

You were very quick to reply to my comment about 2FA being necessary to access to the community yet there has still been no response to my initial question about opting out of these new security changes that many of us are not happy with.

Can you provide a response about opting out of this please

Thanks for responding.  This maybe the case for a corporate environment however these large companies also have their own security teams to make these decisions and define their own policies, large corporates also implement SSO to streamline authentication in addition to their security policies and minimise the number of login requirements for their staff so as not to impact productivity.  It feels like small business is being dictated to and consideration has not been given to the impacts on us.  
If you refer to the article liked by Ellemm then this is not an ATO requirement but a decision made by someone at MYOB which has not been received well by your customers.

We too a so disappointed at the extra log in details, I am told this is not the case with other accounting platforms and I am beginning the process of switching to another product.

Thank you . i have downloaded an authenticator app and added SMS so we will see how quick they are.

Absolutely agree  MYOB remove these silly security checks for small businesses