Planning an Azure MFA deployment
As more companies move to cloud technologies and having identities within the cloud, the ability to protect those identities become paramount to avoiding security breaches. Microsoft and Azure Active Directory provide many ways to protect these identities and mitigate risks. Some examples of these solutions include the following:
- Password complexity rules are used to protect against users utilizing common terms and easy-to-guess passwords. Enforcing certain lengths and complexities, such as the use of alphanumeric and special characters, along with a minimum length, can deter attackers from their ability to utilize password dictionary attacks or identify dates and information from social media accounts that could be used as a password.
- Password expiration rules are utilized to avoid a password remaining the same for an extended period of time. The longer that a password is used by a user, the more likely that it is to eventually be exposed...
