High-level US security agencies want IAM vendors busier on MFA, SSO

Two of the United States' top security agencies are recommending seven general best practices for digital identity and access management (IAM) developers and integrators of multi-factor authentication and single sign-on features.

The National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency (known better as the NSA and CISA) created the short list as part of a large report on major but addressable industry challenges.

The first of the seven recommendations is obvious and yet absent from most discussion about …

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