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Implementing Multifactor Authentication

You're reading from   Implementing Multifactor Authentication Protect your applications from cyberattacks with the help of MFA

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246963
Length 550 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: When to Use Different Types of MFA 4. Part 2: Implementing Multifactor Authentication
5. Chapter 3: Preventing 99.9% of Attacks – MFA with Azure AD and Duo 6. Chapter 4: Implementing Workforce and Customer Authentication Using Okta 7. Chapter 5: Access Management with ForgeRock and Behavioral Biometrics 8. Chapter 6: Federated SSO with PingFederate and 1Kosmos 9. Chapter 7: MFA and the Cloud – Using MFA with Amazon Web Services 10. Chapter 8: Google Cloud Platform and MFA 11. Chapter 9: MFA without Commercial Products – Doing it All Yourself with Keycloak 12. Part 3: Proven Implementation Strategies and Deploying Cutting-Edge Technologies
13. Chapter 10: Implementing MFA in the Real World 14. Chapter 11: The Future of (Multifactor) Authentication 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Installing the Java Software Development Kit 1. Appendix B: Custom App Integration with Azure AD 2. Appendix C: Installing Apache Tomcat Software

Running Keycloak using Java

Keycloak is a Java-based application and can be started from any compute instance as a standard Java runtime application:

  1. Download the latest server distribution for Keycloak from the https://www.keycloak.org/downloads website.

Important note

Keycloak is available in two distributions. One uses Wildfly, which is deprecated and will be discontinued in the future. The other uses Quarkus and will be the one used in this book.

  1. Click on the ZIP (sha1) link of the Keycloak server distribution powered by Quarkus to download the binaries:
Figure 9.3 – Downloading Keycloak

Figure 9.3 – Downloading Keycloak

  1. Extract the contents of the file. Change into that directory (cd keycloak-19.0.3):
Figure 9.4 – Changing into the Keycloak directory

Figure 9.4 – Changing into the Keycloak directory

Keycloak will prompt you to create the initial administrator on your first visit to the welcome page. Alternatively, that can be configured using environment...

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