MFA is a common requirement today for online services. It can be for any hosted solution in organizations such as Citrix, RDS, or other web applications. MFA is also used in hybrid cloud environments to provide the same level of protection to on-premises and cloud. In both the scenarios, AD FS can be used to integrate the traditional authentication with MFA.
There are many MFA service providers in the market. Some of those are on-premises solutions, where we can install an appliance and use MFA services. Others are cloud-based solution providers and sell MFA services as subscriptions. Customers can simply install an agent on-premises and connect it to these cloud-based solutions. Azure MFA was first introduced to be used with Azure services and later developed further to support on-premises workload protections too. Users can use mobile texts, calls...
