Authentication takes many forms and has evolved from usernames and passwords, single factor to multi-factor, to risk-based authentication prompts. It is a vital part of any customer identity and access management system to provide secure access to applications and is often a battle between balancing usability and security.
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Strong authentication helps to prove or confirm one’s identity so the right user has access to the resource in question. Username and passwords were the stepping stones in providing access or authenticating a user, but with phishing attacks and data breaches, user authentication needed to be complex to secure the user and the resource. Therefore authentication needs to be more robust and provide additional factors to increase security. These factors can be a knowledge factor, ownership factor, or an inherence factor. Examples would include a password or a pin (knowledge factor), phone or security tokens such as one time passwords (ownership factor) or biometric data (inherence factor). Strong authentication could take the form of Multi Factor Authentication or adaptive authentication.
WSO2 Identity Server has basic authentication (username and password-based) enabled by default and allows setting up additional authentication factors on top of it to further strengthen security for an application. WSO2 Identity Server comprehensively supports MFA with authenticators such as Email OTP, SMS OTP, FIDO etc. enabling you to design a robust authentication solution.
Easily extensible to support new and existing customer authenticators
Dedicated 24/7 support
Supports various authenticators such as FIDO2 in our identity ecosystem
Easy setup for passwordless authentication within minutes
Readymade script templates to provide easy adaptive authentication
Improved user experience balancing usability and security