Move securely to the cloud with MFA

The world has gone digital. Businesses and organisations that need to connect with customers, clients, or other organisations have to provide digital access on the web or via mobile applications. From the smallest business right up to global multinationals, having a digital presence is vital to business growth and ongoing success.

Securing a digital presence is an essential part of current operations. There are plenty of cybercriminals looking for ways to infiltrate web sites or applications to steal information, or to extort money via ransomware. Being a small player online is not a defence against cybercriminals. All sizes of businesses are a target.

Many businesses are taking advantage of the availability and benefits of cloud-based services to provide their services online. Doing this provides resilience and flexibility via the cloud hosts, and it allows access for users and clients at any time and from anywhere. However, this access also means cybercriminals can attack the systems at any time and from anywhere.

Securing online systems requires analysis and protection at many levels and against many different types of threat. Contact Renaissance for advice if you have any doubts about your security at any level.

Multi-Factor Authentication is Key

One crucial aspect to consider when securing cloud-based systems is how to ensure the identity of the people accessing the system or application is confirmed. Organisations need to use some method to ensure that users logging in are who they say they are. One way to help ensure that this is the case is to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) whenever an access request is made. MFA asks users logging in for one or more additional bits of information beyond their login name and password. This will be additional information that only they have access to and will be separate and not tied to their login credentials. So if their login credentials are stolen (or guessed), then anyone pretending to be that user will not be able to log in without the separate MFA information. On a side note; one-time authentication should not provide blanket access to information in an application. Each request that tries to access sensitive data after login should have a separate authentication check and not just rely on the initial MFA authentication. But that is a topic for another article!

Renaissance and our partners have several cloud-based, and non cloud-based MFA solutions. All off them provide strong MFA protection, but choosing which one is best for a particular web site or application will depend on the infrastructure and configuration used for each deployment. The Renaissance consulting team can discuss your specific needs and provide advice on the best product to deliver MFA for your organisation. Contact us today to start a conversation.

Conclusion

Protecting systems from malicious attack is essential. Ensuring the identity of people accessing systems is a key part of this protection. And MFA is vital to that user authentication process. Renaissance and our security partners will have a solution that integrates with your current IT systems seamlessly. Contact us today to discuss your MFA needs.