Day 6 of 100 Days AWS Cloud Challenge-Lab-4 Strengthening AWS Account Security: Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Enhanced Protection
🎯Day 6 of 100 Days AWS Cloud Challenge🎯
📚 Synopsis
In this blog, we will learn how to enable MFA for your Account
📋 Prerequisites
- 📌 AWS Account (In case you do not have one, To create one follow this blog: AWS Account SignUp Free Tier Account
- 📌 Internet Connection.
- 📌 Download Twilio Authy authenticator from the App Store or Play Store https://authy.com/download/
💡 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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