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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

access management (AM) 9, 10

Account Take Over (ATO) 16

Active Server Pages (ASP) 409

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 315

security 270

Apache Tomcat

installing 497

installing, on Windows 497-506

Apache Tomcat 9

installing, on Mac 506

manual installation, on Mac 509-512

URL 497

Asia-Pacific (APAC) 409

Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) 65

authentication 5

factors 13-15

significance, in Web 2.0 411

authentication assurance level (AAL) 42

Authentication Trees 196-203

authentication, configuring with Duo authentication node, 206-208

Duo authentication node, installing 204-206

authenticators 8

configuring 142-146

authorization 5

automated teller machine (ATM) 4

AWS Cognito 296

using, to implement CIAM on AWS 296-312

AWS IAM...