ISC2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Practice Question
A security engineer must add multi-factor authentication (MFA) for employees who already sign in to an internal web application through a SAML 2.0 trust between the company's on-premises Active Directory and AWS. Management wants to avoid distributing hardware tokens, ensure that lost mobile devices can be disabled centrally, and keep administrative overhead low. Which solution best meets these requirements?
Integrate the on-premises Active Directory with AWS Directory Service AD Connector and enforce MFA in ADFS using an OTP mobile authenticator application.
Migrate authentication to Amazon Cognito User Pools and require SMS-based MFA for all users, creating new credentials within Cognito.
Modify the application to prompt for a second, independent password stored in a separate database table after SAML authentication completes.
Create individual IAM users in AWS for each employee and enable a virtual MFA device such as Google Authenticator.
Reusing the existing on-premises Active Directory and its Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) keeps user identities in one place and lets administrators revoke access centrally through normal account management processes. By adding an MFA requirement in ADFS-such as an OATH-compliant phone application like Microsoft Authenticator-employees receive a second authentication factor without issuing physical tokens. AD Connector simply passes the credentials through to AD, so no additional AWS account management is needed. Creating separate IAM users with virtual MFA or separate Amazon Cognito identities would duplicate credentials and raise operational effort, while asking users to enter a second password provides no true second factor and remains single-factor authentication.
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