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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

Introducing Authentication Trees

Authentication Trees are part of the configuration tools for openam. Let’s learn how to access them:

  1. From the Quick Start menu, select Authentication Trees:
Figure 5.41 – The Quick Start menu – Authentication Trees

Figure 5.41 – The Quick Start menu – Authentication Trees

  1. Authentication Trees can also be accessed from the left menu. Select Authentication, then Trees:
Figure 5.42 – Authentication sub-menu

Figure 5.42 – Authentication sub-menu

Several trees are pre-configured in openam. PlatformLogin is used for the default login in openam. We are going to use that as a model for our custom Authentication Tree:

Figure 5.43 – PlatformLogin Authentication Tree

Figure 5.43 – PlatformLogin Authentication Tree

  1. Click on + Create Tree to create a new Authentication Tree:
Figure 5.44 – Creating a new Authentication Tree

Figure 5.44 – Creating a new Authentication Tree

  1. Enter a name and click on Create to create a new tree:
Figure 5.45 – Naming the new Authentication Tree

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