From the course: IAM Fundamentals with Okta
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Configuring user authentication methods
From the course: IAM Fundamentals with Okta
Configuring user authentication methods
- [Instructor] So, we've created new users. We've given them rules within Okta. What about logging in? Let's set their authentication. Now, the first thing for authentication we talk about is passwords. And I want to bring your attention to this screen right here. This is Hive Systems' password table in 2024, it shows you how fast bad actors using software can crack your account. You'll see here, if you have a password that has four characters only and only numbers, they can crack it instantly. And that's not what we want. When we set up our authentication here in our own Okta instance for Red 30 Tech, we want to make it strong. Because again, we don't want to be cracked, we want to take 44 years or even greater for us to do that. So, how do we do that? For our users, what we want to do is back to our navigation screen here, we're going to go to Security, and we're going to go into Authenticators. And you'll see here that Okta provides a couple of Authenticators that we have available…
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