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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

AWS IAM

Before cloud services like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud were available, cyber security was very different. Companies needed to build their own data centers or rent space with hosting companies to deploy their own servers somewhere else. Virtual security for those enterprise data centers was based on one fundamental idea: keep the bad actors out.

As seen in Figure 7.1, the main security perimeter for an enterprise was created using a firewall between the cloud (everything external to the enterprise) and the enterprise servers. Within the enterprise data center, an internal firewall would also separate the trusted part of the network from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), where the public-facing servers, such as web and mail servers, would reside:

Figure 7.1 – Security before the cloud

Figure 7.1 – Security before the cloud

In a typical scenario, a user would try to access a web application from Acme and connect to its web server. The user would then log in to the web server and...