AUTH-2 Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

What is this control about?

Similarly, to SSO, this is a best practice recommendation for critical systems, but not required.

What is required is that the company requires a unique username and password to authenticate to any system, program, or data.

Having MFA is industry best practice and enhances the protection mechanism, but that decision remains at the discretion of each organization.

Available tools in the marketplace

The following listing is “crowdsourced” from our customer base or from external research. TrustCloud does not personally recommend any of the tools below, because we haven’t personally used them.

Available templates

TrustCloud has a curated list of templates internally or externally sourced to help you get started. Click on the link for a downloadable version:

• N/A – no templates recommendation

Control implementation

Note: This control is automated by TrustCloud. Connect your system to enjoy the benefit of automation

For a manual implementation: 

Implement MFA configuration settings for each system, especially critical systems. As noted in the above section, this is not mandatory.

What evidence do auditors look for?

Most auditors, at a minimum are looking for the below suggested action:

• Upload a screenshot of the configuration settings that shows MFA enabled for all users.

Evidence example

From the suggested action above, an example is provided below.

1. Upload a screenshot of the configuration settings that shows Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled for all users.

There are many different ways to show this: