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Implementing Multifactor Authentication

By : Marco Fanti
Book Image

Implementing Multifactor Authentication

By: Marco Fanti

Overview of this book

MFA has emerged as an essential defense strategy in the wide-ranging landscape of cybersecurity. This book is a comprehensive manual that assists you in picking, implementing, and resolving issues with various authentication products that support MFA. It will guide you to bolster application security without sacrificing the user experience. You'll start with the fundamentals of authentication and the significance of MFA to familiarize yourself with how MFA works and the various types of solutions currently available. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn how to choose the proper MFA setup to provide the right combination of security and user experience. The book then takes you through methods hackers use to bypass MFA and measures to safeguard your applications. After familiarizing yourself with enabling and managing leading cloud and on-premise MFA solutions, you’ll see how MFA efficiently curbs cyber threats, aided by insights from industry best practices and lessons from real-world experiences. Finally, you’ll explore the significance of innovative advancements in this domain, including behavioral biometrics and passkeys. By the end of the book, you'll have the knowledge to secure your workforce and customers, empowering your organization to combat authentication fraud.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction
4
Part 2: Implementing Multifactor Authentication
12
Part 3: Proven Implementation Strategies and Deploying Cutting-Edge Technologies

Google Cloud Platform and MFA

The top three cloud platform service providers are Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These three providers are the dominant players in the cloud computing market and offer a wide range of cloud computing services, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS), which are available across multiple regions around the world.

Each of these top cloud providers offers its own unique value proposition. While Azure, which we discussed in Chapter 3, claims to provide a more user-friendly way for organizations to migrate to the cloud, AWS claims to be the most developer-friendly for its wide range of services offered, while Google amplifies its machine learning and data analytics capabilities. AWS being the oldest of the three providers, claims to offer over 200 services from 31 Regions and 99 Availability Zones (at the time of writing), Azure delivers over 150...