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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

Customer Identity and Access Management on AWS

Now that we have covered Workforce IAM on AWS, let's discuss the requirements and how can we implement Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) on AWS.

AWS Cognito

AWS Cognito is the tool to use to implement CIAM on AWS. Amazon Cognito satisfies all the requirements presented in Chapter 1, On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog (self-service, scalability, ease of use, and SSO). Unlike AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Cognito is not free. It is a pay-as-you-use service. For the examples in this chapter, we will try to use as many of the free tier services as possible. With this introduction, let’s start using the Cognito user pools to manage our customers:

  1. Sign in to the AWS console at https://signin.aws.amazon.com/console:
Figure 7.43 – AWS console sign-in

Figure 7.43 – AWS console sign-in

  1. Search for Cognito:
Figure 7.44 – Searching for Cognito

Figure 7.44 – Searching for Cognito

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