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- Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education: Two-Factor Authentication (2011)
About halfway through this document, one will find the Results from the 2011 Internet2/InCommon Survey on Campus Use of Two-Factor Authentication.
- Multifactor Authentication Approaches and Multifactor for InCommon Silver (2012)
Multifactor authentication (also referred to as two-factor authentication) adds another level of complexity and security to a password-only arrangement. Interest in multifactor continues to grow, as some federal agencies move in that direction. InCommon has added service offerings in this area, as well, and some schools now plan to use a second factor as a way to meet the requirements of the InCommon Silver Assurance Profile. Join our speakers to learn the basics about multifactor authentication, the pros and cons of different approaches to multifactor, and how one campus plans to use this approach for InCommon Silver
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MFA Technologies and whitepapers
- Information Security Guide: Effective Practices and Solutions for Higher Education: Two-Factor Authentication (2011)
The first half of this document describes what two/multi-factor authentication is, and provides a reasonably extensive summary of all of the methods and technologies to providing additional authentication factors, including security tokens, smart cards, biometrics, and "second channel authentication - mobile phone-based" approaches.
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