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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 Identity

Google Cloud Identity is a cloud-based IAM platform provided by Google Cloud. It is designed to help organizations manage user access to cloud and on-premises resources, devices, and applications. With Cloud Identity, administrators can create and manage user accounts, set up and enforce policies for access and authentication, and monitor and audit user activity. The platform also includes features such as single sign-on (SSO) and multifactor authentication (MFA) to help ensure the security of user accounts and protect against unauthorized access. In addition, Cloud Identity integrates with other Google Cloud products, such as Google Workspace, GCP, and Google Identity Platform (formerly Google Cloud Identity for Customers and Partners), to provide a unified and comprehensive approach to IAM.

Setting up Cloud Identity

Let’s start setting up Cloud Identity for Acme:

  1. Go to https://admin.google.com/u/3/ac/home. Click BEGIN THE SETUP:
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