Endpoint multi-factor authentication(MFA)

Barricade access to a hacker’s point of contact

With an estimated 70 percent of breaches starting at endpoints—laptops, workstations, and servers—it's high time that admins take action to prevent these intrusions by leveraging multi-factor authentication (MFA). Endpoint MFA ensures minimal risk to sensitive data, even in cases where passwords are compromised due to inadequate password hygiene.

Redefining endpoint security with MFA

ADSelfService Plus offers Endpoint MFA for Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoint logins. With Endpoint MFA in place, users are first authenticated through Active Directory (AD) domain credentials, and next through one of the supported authentication techniques such as one-time passwords (OTPs) sent via SMS or email. So even if a hacker steals user credentials, they still need access to the second factor: the users' email or mobile phone.

ADSelfService Plus dispels both these misconceptions by providing a variety of authentication techniques that don't always require external hardware devices (e.g. security questions) or affect user productivity (e.g. fingerprint authentication). However, it stands to reason that different sets of users are comfortable with different authentication techniques. Asking users who are only familiar with OTPs to use hardware tokens will generate a lot of complaints. Also, some users have more privileges than others; protecting these privileged accounts with additional authentication techniques makes more sense than implementing the same number of authentication factors for all users across the organization.

ADSelfService Plus allows admins to utilize different approaches to different sets of users to limit user disruptions. For example, with ADSelfService Plus, admins have the option to enforce OTPs, tokens, or security questions for one set of users (say, users inside the LAN network); and configure fingerprint, push, or QR-based authentication for another set of users (say, C-level executives or remote employees).

Complete list of supported authentication techniques:

1. Security questions and answers
2. SMS and email verification codes
3. Google Authenticator
4. Duo Security
5. RSA SecurID
6. RADIUS
7. Push notifications
8. Fingerprint authentication
9. QR code-based authentication
10. Time-based one-time password (TOTP)
11. AD-based security questions
12. Microsoft Authenticator
13. Yubikey Authenticator

Simplify administration

ADSelfService Plus provides features to help admins:

1. Enable MFA based on OUs and groups: Enforce endpoint MFA and use different sets of authentication techniques for different users based on domain, OU, and group memberships.
2. Ensure 100 percent enrollment: Automate user enrollment by importing users' domain information through CSV files or force enrollment using login scripts.
3. Get detailed reports: Gain comprehensive insights on user activities such as identity verification failures and login attempts, and also find users with weak passwords.
4. Simplify authentication: Use authentication techniques like fingerprint authentication, push notification authentication, YubiKey, and QR code-based authentication to help users prove their identity with minimal effort.

Benefits of multi-factor authentication