Security News > 2023 > January > A Secure User Authentication Method – Planning is More Important than Ever

With many users and a seemingly robust authentication system, organizations used Twitter as a primary or secondary authentication service.

Instead, proactive planning is essential if an organization needs to maintain stability and security with its authentication platforms.

It's crucial to ask and answer the following questions when considering how your organization's authentication service would handle potential disruptions in authentication providers.

Does the organization's authentication service support multiple identity providers? If a provider is unavailable, is there a backup provider, and how quickly can providers be switched? What is the disruption to users? Will they be logged out of current sessions, or will it be seamless and take effect on the next login? If MFA is configured, what are the available options? Are there multiple methods to verify the user, and if one is removed, does that degrade authentication services?

Nearly identical is Google Workspace, where you can offer one or more authentication options.

Since multiple providers are in use, you can have end-users utilize a combination of trusted identification services to perform self-service password resets without worrying about losing access to a previously critical authentication service.

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