Multi-Factor Authentication

Part of the Security Fundamentals section of Coddy's Cybersecurity journey. Lesson 5 of 43.

You may have signed in to an app that asked for a code from your phone after you entered your password. That extra check is an example of multi-factor authentication, or MFA. It helps protect your account if someone steals your password.

At Lumen, you can require this extra check for an account. For example, to turn on MFA for Ken, run:

seclab mfa ken on

You should see:

MFA is on for ken.

If you need to protect a whole team, first check who belongs to it. This command lists the support team's members:

seclab groups support

You should see:

support: read and answer customer orders
  members: ken, priya

The result names Ken and Priya. Turning on MFA for Ken does not turn it on for Priya, so you would need to protect her account too.

Challenge

Easy

Ticket from Dana, CEO

Finance is where the money moves. If anyone there has a password in the wrong hands, I want it to be useless on its own. Make it so for everyone in finance.

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