Setting Up 2FA
Learn to secure your AWS root account by enabling two-factor authentication (2FA) with a virtual MFA device app on your smartphone. This lesson guides you through setting up and testing MFA to enhance your account's security and prevent unauthorized access.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
In this lesson, you’ll learn to set up two-factor authentication (2FA, also sometimes called multi-factor Authentication [MFA]) for the root account. This is a very important step to secure your AWS account and prevent unauthorized access.
Please note that you need a smartphone to set up 2FA in the way we will do in this lesson. We’ll use the most common way of setting up 2FA by using a Virtual MFA device.
Virtual MFA ...