Introduction
Imagine that you're a security engineer for a large manufacturing firm. Your company works on several big contracts for popular personal electronics companies, including Microsoft. Clients send you their confidential designs, which are then stored in your Azure infrastructure. Plenty of hackers would love to get their hands on the next-generation designs. It's your job to protect them.
You did significant work in hardening your network and ensuring that only the right people have access to client data. There's still a big hole to protect: user accounts. This module discusses one of the best ways to stop unauthorized users from gaining access through a username and password: multifactor authentication.
Learning objectives
In this module, you:
- Learn about Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication (MFA).
- Create a plan to deploy Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication.
- Turn on Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication for users and specific apps.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of the Azure portal
- Basic knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID