The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security
Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop. The post The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has become one of cybersecurity’s most important controls. Roughly 70% of enterprise workforce users are now protected by it. But its success has created an unintended problem. Organizations increasingly treat successful authentication as proof of identity.
They assume that because someone passed MFA, they have verified who that person is. They may also assume that the identity itself has not been compromised.
Neither is it necessarily true.
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