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Tom_Schaefer
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6 years ago

Supported way to use MFA to BIG-IP GUI and shell

I have read on DevCentral various mechanisms to implement 2FA (MFA) using APM and even some packages to change the PAM and implement this on the SSH shell.   Are there any supported mechanisms t...
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
security
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cjunior's avatar
cjunior
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6 years ago

Hi Tom,

Curious to me, I pray for the security, but I never thought about MFA on GUI since BIG-IP is out-of-band traffic management and the access should be in a private and secure network.

 

Kind regards

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Tom_Schaefer
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6 years ago

Our security requirements do not differentiate where the device resides in the network. If a sysadmin/netadmin accesses the system, it requires MFA to login.

  • liborj's avatar
    liborj
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    2 years ago

    we have the same requirements. Even though access to our BigIPs are on a protected and access restricted network we still need to implement MFA.