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Implementing Multifactor Authentication

By : Marco Fanti
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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

Strategies for implementing MFA

The list of strategies in this section will provide suggestions that can help in a successful MFA implementation. As we discussed, each strategy needs to be considered according to business needs and as a balance between usability and security, as well as the costs involved. Also, security is a business issue, and a major initiative such as the implementation of an MFA system can only be successful with the support from high-level sponsors in the organization. It will be very difficult to succeed if it is just an IT or security team-imposed solution. In the following sections, I will also identify when the strategies and tips apply only to the workforce or only to customer MFA.

Eliminating passwords should be the goal

Even for small companies like Acme, it may be impossible to completely eliminate the use of passwords for all users accessing the organization’s internal applications. This can be due to a number of factors, such as the lack...