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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

Keeping up with bad actors – good sources for up-to-date information on MFA and related topics

The US government is an excellent source of information for security. There are multiple government websites we can go to for up-to-date security and (multifactor) authentication information. Similarly, the European Union, Australia, the UK, and Israel provide important and simplified guidance to their citizens that can be beneficial to anyone looking for more information on new security threats and how they affect MFA specifically.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) (https://www.cisa.gov/about-cisa) is “part of the Department of Homeland Security that leads the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to our cyber and physical infrastructure. CISA connect their stakeholders in industry and government to each other and to resources, analyses, and tools to help them build their own cyber...