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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 chapter, we went over the process of importing users, enabling SSO for custom-built and Enterprise applications, and using different authentication factors for MFA with the use of organization-based policies, all to protect workforce users (employees, contractors, and temporary users) using the Okta Workforce Identity solution.

In the second part of this chapter, we learned how to enable self-registration and how to configure SSO and MFA using application-based policies with Okta Customer Identity. By deploying Okta Customer Identity, we enabled frictionless, secure access to custom-built apps for external users of the company.

In the next chapter, we will learn about another workforce and customer-oriented company, ForgeRock. ForgeRock is a company that focuses on creating simple and secure identity experiences for people at work or on the go, with no awkward registration processes and without worrying about fraudulent account takeovers. We will also learn how...