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Single Sign-On and Passwordless Authentication you own this product
- prerequisites
- intermediate Linux command line • basic web application stack
- skills learned
- AWS Cloud infrastructure • user-account management • multi-factor authentication (MFA) • single sign-on • FIDO2 • WebAuthn
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Play the role of an analyst for Sitting Duck Shipping, a fictional mid-sized company looking to modernize its authentication and authorization stack by moving away from easy-to-forget, easy-to-steal passwords. Your task is to build a proof-of-concept for the new stack, collect information, and put together a project proposal. In this series of liveProjects, you’ll set up the environment for the proof-of-concept, establish multi-factor authentication (MFA), establish single sign-on to reduce the number of required passwords, and implement secure, passwordless authentication. As a result of your efforts, Sitting Duck Shipping’s end users will enjoy increased security and an improved login experience.
These projects are designed for learning purposes and are not complete, production-ready applications or solutions.
here's what's included
Project 1 Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Play the role of an analyst at Sitting Duck Shipping, a fictional mid-sized company that wants to modernize its authentication and authorization stack. Its goal is to reduce support time spent on password resets and improve the end-user experience, ultimately reducing the risk of account takeovers while maintaining security and compliance. Your task is to set up the proof-of-concept environment for this project.
Project 2 Multi-Factor Authentication
Protect the Sitting Duck Shipping company from password theft—the most common type of security breach. In this liveProject, you’ll arm the company’s lab environment against these types of attacks by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) for IaaS, the server, and the web application. To provide your best recommendation to the company, you’ll evaluate various algorithms and factors that can be used to set up its MFA.
Project 3 Single Sign-On
Set up single sign-on (SSO) for the Sitting Duck Shipping company to simplify its password management—a process that typically requires a business employee to manage more than a hundred passwords for various web applications. You’ll configure SSO for AWS, Linux, and WordPress, establishing seamless secure logins. During this liveProject, you’ll identify and strengthen weak points in the infrastructure and keep potential attacks at bay with the appropriate countermeasures.
Project 4 Go Passwordless
Your task as an analyst for the Sitting Duck Shipping company is to enable FIDO2 (WebAuthn and CTAP). To do that, you’ll configure the learner’s hardware as the authenticator and configure WordPress to accept WebAuthn authentication. By implementing biometric authentication, you’ll bring a new level of security and satisfaction to the login experience for the company’s users.
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When you start each of the projects in this series, you'll get full access to the following book for 90 days.
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Prerequisites
These liveProjects are for security professionals who want hands-on experience implementing passwordless authentication, and for software developers who want to better understand modern authentication. To begin these liveProjects you will need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- AWS Console basics
- Intermediate Linux command line
- Basic understanding of authentication (including multi-factor)
- An iPhone or Android smartphone with biometric features or a USB security dongle with FIDO2 protocol
- Web application stack basics (web servers, network protocols)
Notes: The AWS instance could cost some money if you have already used up your free tier.
you will learn
In these liveProjects, you’ll learn how to implement the different authentication methods to build a more secure and user-friendly environment for modern cloud infrastructure.
- Set up the cloud infrastructure for the project
- Get familiar with the dashboards and configurations
- Install the most popular application server stack on the Internet
- Identify and set up the most important user roles and permissions
- Protect AWS accounts with multi-factor authentication
- Require users to use MFA when they login to EC2 Instance using an SSH client
- Configure web applications to use MFA
- Configure SSO portal to improve user experience by reducing the number of passwords
- Configure the AWS to use a single sign-on provider
- Configure Web applications to use a single sign-on provider
- Configure the authenticator device for passwordless authentication
- Set up the passwordless authentication for your WordPress installation
- Research typical security threats to MFA, SSO, and FIDO2 implementations
- Research possible countermeasures to security threats
features
- Self-paced
- You choose the schedule and decide how much time to invest as you build your project.
- Project roadmap
- Each project is divided into several achievable steps.
- Get Help
- While within the liveProject platform, get help from other participants and our expert mentors.
- Compare with others
- For each step, compare your deliverable to the solutions by the author and other participants.
- book resources
- Get full access to select books for 90 days. Permanent access to excerpts from Manning products are also included, as well as references to other resources.
