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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

Summary

In this book, you learned about the journey of a fictitious software company, Acme Software, and how it chose authentication products and mechanisms to support its customers, workers, and partners while balancing security, risks, costs, and friction. In addition, the book provided step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and detailed hands-on implementations to help you understand the concepts and technologies of MFA.

In the book’s middle section, you learned about implementing IAM products, with examples showing how to configure authorization for multiple applications using single sign-on (SSO). In addition, each chapter included a list of commercial products representative of the examples used to test the work done in each chapter.

The book demonstrated how Acme selected different products to use with its internal users, partners, and customers. Finally, the book provided instructions on where to obtain free trial versions, if available...