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Created by Guest
Created on Mar 24, 2022

Multi factor authentication for WebSphere admin console

We would like to have MFA for WebSphere admin console. We were trying to implement something like Yubikey for WAS Admin console authentication. MFA is NYSDFS requirement and NIST standard and we need to enable this as per the requirements.
Idea priority High
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    Apr 1, 2022

    Hi, WebSphere Application Server does not directly handle MFA, however we provide the ability to plug in your own implementation of our Trust Association Interceptor interface which can redirect requests to a 3rd party authentication provider that can handle the required MFA and then redirect the request back to the application server with a Single Sign-On token.

    For more information about implementing your own Trust Association Interceptor, please see the following article:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/was-nd/9.0.5?topic=SSAW57_9.0.5/com.ibm.websphere.nd.multiplatform.doc/ae/tsec_waci.html