Due to the frictionless experience that adaptive authentication caters to the users rather than disruptive MFA, adaptive authentication has become a future green light of authentication process. However, that advantage gets a more value added feature to users/ admins only if the best IDP with adaptive authentication solution is selected.
As highlighted above, WSO2 adaptive authentication solution prevails over other competitive solutions. The super ability of script based policy language to bring the complexity down and cater the feature to users in a simple manner, the comprehensive toolset to design adaptive authentication features and open source- future proof- extensible platform are the main reasons to embrace WSO2 adaptive authentication solution.
The use cases explored in this article clearly show how adaptive authentication works on different domains. The primary advantage of adaptive authentication is that it requires minimal human input. No one has to manually determine the rules or correlate different activities to identify elevated risks. It works dynamically and increases MFA steps depending on a user’s login attempts by its own intelligence. From a user’s perspective, they want to have strong security and convenient authentication. Adaptive authentication MFA improves user experiences. Instead of requesting the user to provide multiple authentication factors, the user will only be asked for an additional factor when necessary. We can conclude that adaptive authentication provides security and convenience authentication.
As discussed, adaptive authentication can provide a more frictionless experience for the users compared to its legacy counterpart due to its dynamic contextual threat analysis and its intelligent use of precise level of security. Also, adaptive authentication can alleviate the aforementioned drawbacks of legacy MFA solutions and act as an extra layer of security for the system. Going forward, it would be obligatory rather than voluntary for a business to adopt adaptive authentication in their security solutions considering the escalation of the level of sophistication in cyber attacks in recent times. Hence, more intelligent solutions than the currently-in-place legacy MFA solutions would be required if an organization is perceptive towards its security posture. Due to its ability to mitigate the defections in legacy MFA solutions and its provision as a strong base for scalable, efficient security solutions, it’s high time that organizations upgrade from their legacy MFA solutions to adaptive authentication.
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