🔒Day 6 of 100 Days AWS Cloud Challenge-Lab-4 Strengthening AWS Account Security: Enable MFA
📚 Synopsis
In this blog, we will learn how to enable MFA for your Account
📋 Prerequisites
📌 AWS Account.
📌 Internet Connection.
📌 Download Twilio Authy authenticator from the App Store or Play Store
💡 Plan of Execution
🚀 Importance of enabling MFA?
🚀 How to Enable MFA for the AWS Account?
🚀 How to validate if MFA has been enabled successfully?
🚀 Best practices to Secure a Root Account?
🥳 conclusion
🚀 Importance of enabling MFA?
💡 Scenario: An Unauthorized person gets complete access to your AWS resources, compromising sensitive data, resources and services.
💡 Problem: An Unauthorized person gets complete access to your AWS resources, compromising sensitive data, resources and services.
💡 Solution: To mitigate the risks from unauthorized access, it’s mandatory to add an extra layer of protection(2FA) for the AWS Account by enabling Multi-Factor-Authentication(MFA).
🚀 How to Enable MFA for the AWS Account?
We can see, a successful notification post adding the MFA.
🚀 How to validate if MFA has been enabled successfully?
Now, we have logged in to the AWS Management Console post-MFA validation.
🚀 Best practices to Secure a Root Account?
Enable two-factor Authentication for the root account as it adds an extra layer of protection to your account.
Never share these credentials with anyone.
Don’t use the root account for daily activities.
Create an IAM User and Assign only the required ADMIN access for the IAM ADMIN User.
🥳 conclusion
We have successfully enabled the Multi-Factor Authentication for the root account and we have validated the MFA access by re-logging into the account. In the next blog, we will create an IAM user and assign the required policies so that we can stop using the root account for day-to-day tasks.
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