Multi-factor authentication: Best practices for the modern digital enterprise
While contextual authentication is seen as complementary to active and explicit authentication factors today, that may change in the future. Contextual authentication will become the norm and explicit authentication used less frequently.
This white paper proposes best practices for customer and enterprise deployments of step-up multi-factor authentication (MFA). It explores a risk-based approach that combines dynamic step-up authentication with passive contextual mechanisms, such as geolocation and time of day, for the optimal combination of cost-effectiveness, usability and security.
Read this white paper to learn about:
Authentication in depth, including its vocabulary, mechanisms and signals
Choosing the right MFA mechanisms for your environment
Applying a risk-based model to step-up MFA
Best practices in step-up MFA, including risk analysis, choice of authentication factors, privacy, lock-out, registration, user opt-in, suspension and bypass, self-service, native applications, initial authentication and multiple touch points/channels
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