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Welcome

  • Welcome to Akamai MFA

Get started

  • Set up Akamai MFA
    • Sync your directory services with Akamai MFA
    • Add integrations
    • Define policies
    • Enable users to self-enroll
    • Deploy your installation

For administrators

  • Manage Akamai MFA
  • Access Akamai MFA
  • Role-based access controls
  • View the MFA Dashboard
  • Provision and deprovision users
    • Add a user account manually
    • Upload a csv file
    • Provision users from IDPs using SCIM
    • Provision users from the AD or LDAP services
    • Provision users from EAA
    • Provision users from Entra ID using SCIM
    • Provision users from Okta using SCIM
    • Enroll new users
    • Send bulk emails to users
    • Send bulk emails to group members
    • Delete users and groups manually
    • Support users in China
  • Manage the enrollment emails
    • View the enrollment email details
    • Customize the enrollment email
  • Manage users and devices
    • View users in the list
    • User statuses
    • Search and filter users in the list
    • View user details
    • Update a user account manually
    • Add and remove a user from a group
    • Enable and disable a user account
    • Enroll a device for a user
    • Assign a hardware token to a user
    • Unassign a hardware token from a user
    • Manage hardware tokens
    • Activate and deactivate a user's device
    • Generate a bypass code
    • Manage locked-out user accounts
    • Customize the mobile app branding
  • Manage groups
    • View groups in the list
    • Search and filter group list
    • View group members
    • Add a group account manually
    • Update a group account manually
  • Manage integrations
    • Apply the username normalization
    • EAA identity provider
    • Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services
    • Microsoft Entra ID External Authentication Methods (EAM)
    • Okta
    • Okta passwordless login
    • Shibboleth
    • Splunk adapter
    • Unix PAM
    • Krypton akr FIDO2 SSH Agent (beta)
    • Windows Logon
    • Demo integration
    • SAML integration
    • PingFederate
    • Keycloak
    • PingOne DaVinci
  • PacketFence Gateway
    • Prerequisites
    • Add PacketFence Gateway integration
    • VPN server configured as a Radius client only
    • VPN server configured as a Radius client only that supports sending passcode via Radius
    • VPN server that allows the user’s interaction with the VPN client
    • VPN server that supports an external login page or can use the PacketFence captive portal
    • VPN Configuration Guide
    • Troubleshoot PacketFence integration issues
  • Manage policies
    • Configure policy for an unenrolled and enrolled user
    • Configure your device posture policy
    • Configure your lockout policy
    • Edit the global policy
    • Configure custom policies
    • Associate policies
    • Edit a policy association
    • Allowed authentication methods
    • Configure your offline authentication policy
    • Configure your remembered devices policy
  • Deploy configuration changes
    • View the Deployments History
    • Deploy Pending Changes
  • Manage reports
    • Generate the Authentication events report
    • Troubleshoot authentication issues

For users

  • Use Akamai MFA
  • Self-enroll in Akamai MFA
    • Self-enroll your smartphone or tablet
    • Self-enroll your platform authenticator
    • Self-enroll your security key
    • Self-enroll your passkey
    • Self-enroll your WebAuthn credential
    • Self-enroll your third-party authenticator app
    • Self-enroll your phone number
  • Authenticate with Akamai MFA
    • The authentication prompt
    • Use a push notification
    • Use your security key
    • Use a platform authenticator
    • Use a passkey
    • Use a WebAuthn credential
    • Use a push MFA TOTP
    • Use a magic link (via SMS)
    • Use a phone call OTP
    • Use hardware token
    • Use an email or SMS OTP
    • Use a bypass code
    • Use your third-party OTP device
    • Use MFA for Windows logins
    • Use MFA for SSH logins
  • Manage your devices
    • Enroll a new device
    • Delete an enrolled device
    • Enable automatic challenge
    • Display the installation help page
    • Remove your account from the mobile app

Administrator Tools

  • Overview
  • Akamai MFA Splunk app
  • Unified Log Streamer for any SIEM
  • Akamai MFA CLI


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