Abstract
Pulse Connect Secure漏 (PCS) is a trusted platform for government agencies to provide secure access to web portals. As more and more accounts are being hacked, and web sites are being compromised, single-factor authentication with a username and password has become insufficient to adequately protect authenticated web portals. Multi-factor authentication (MFA), granting user access only when two or more independent pieces of information are presented, has become a necessary tool in the prevention of security breaches.
This paper provides an overview of three MFA solutions that utilize the features of PCS. Categories include Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card authentication, service provider initiated (SP鈥搃nitiated) Security Assertion Markup Language based (SAML鈥揵ased) authentication, and identity provider initiated (IdP鈥搃nitiated) SAML鈥揵ased authentication.