Not all MFA is created equal – when to use different types of MFA
In May 2021, the President of the United States issued Executive Order (EO) 14028 to initiate a government-wide effort to improve cybersecurity. As part of this effort, the Office of the Management and Budget (OMB), part of the Executive Office of the President, issued a memorandum entitled Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles. The memo was sent on January 26, 2022, to all heads of executive departments and agencies of the government with specific cybersecurity standards and objectives that need to be in place by the end of the fiscal year 2024 (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/M-22-09.pdf).
The initiative’s goals are to “ensure that baseline security practices are in place, migrate the Federal Government to a zero-trust architecture, and realize the security benefits of cloud-based infrastructure while mitigating associated risks.”
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