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> [1] Among other things, there are decent odds that you can't remove MFA because of e.g. a corporate policy. But you can just automate whatever it is that you
by dwaite 5y ago
> [1] Among other things, there are decent odds that you can't remove MFA because of e.g. a corporate policy. But you can just automate whatever it is that you want the compromised account to do, and do that.
The NIST 800-63 series has slowly been turning that ship around on ancient corporate password policies. The big step is to get the enterprise tooling to support newer policies.
Multi-factor doesn't need to mean the user has to go through multiple steps. Kerberos, Mutual TLS and Web Authentication all can use physical possession of the device (e.g. embedded TPM in your laptop or phone, USB or NFC key, lanyard smart card) as one of the factors, which means then you just have to enter a PIN or supply a biometric.