From the course: Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control
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Pitfalls of multi-factor authentication
From the course: Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control
Pitfalls of multi-factor authentication
- [Instructor] Multifactor authentication offers us some obvious security improvements over single factor authentication. However, there are also some drawbacks and pitfalls that we should consider. First, multifactor authentication does require extra effort and expense to set it up for a website and the additional security layer adds friction to the authentication process. Every user must now take a second step to gain access. That second step is not always convenient. In my own experience, there have been times when my cell phone is in a different room or when I've left my hardware authentication device at home. There's a trade-off between convenience and increased security. You should consider whether website needs that extra security and whether the users of the website will accept that trade-off. As a user myself, I demand that my financial institutions use MFA but I do not want to spend the extra effort anytime I…
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