Glossary term
What is Multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Multi-factor authentication (MFA)" means: Signing in with two proofs, such as a password plus a code from an app or a key, so a stolen password alone is not enough. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
Signing in with two proofs, such as a password plus a code from an app or a key, so a stolen password alone is not enough. (From AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Multi-factor authentication (MFA) mean in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup?
Signing in with two proofs, such as a password plus a code from an app or a key, so a stolen password alone is not enough.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
What does Multi-factor authentication (MFA) mean in Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals?
Signing in with two or more kinds of proof, such as a password plus a code from an app or a security key.
Where is Multi-factor authentication (MFA) taught?
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup and Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live SetupCybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals
Which lessons cover Multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 2.4: Lock the front door: the root user and MFA
Which terms are related to Multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
Next to Multi-factor authentication (MFA) in the course glossaries: Root user, IAM, Elasticity, IAM user, Hybrid, IAM role, On-premises, Policy, Session and Log.
Root userIAMElasticityIAM userHybridIAM roleOn-premisesPolicySessionLog
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.
- Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking: Fundamentals: No security, networking or programming experience is needed.