Akamai MFA

Akamai Technologies

About this app

Akamai MFA is a new secure multi-factor authenticator that significantly improves your organization's security and account logins.

Akamai MFA uses the recently acquired Krypton technology to take phone-based multi-factor authentication to the next level by turning your phone into a security key. This authenticator leverages strong FIDO2 authentication standards including WebAuthn to deliver a "phish-proof" authentication factor with a delightful user experience. Akamai MFA's FIDO2 solution works with the enterprise offering.

Additionally, Akamai MFA can generate one-time passcodes for offline access login and can receive regular push notifications for traditional tap-to-approve requests on Android devices. Passcodes are supported by many consumer websites such as facebook.com, twitter.com, google.com, and github.com.

Note: Akamai MFA enterprise offering requires an enrollment code from your organization.

Ratings and reviews

SSH experience needs to be improved. Currently it requires approving every single SSH request instead of providing approval for a time window. If you have multiple SSH keys registered, it randomly asks for approval of keys which might not align with the actual key being used on the client side. Also, it should provide GPG support. Has potential but work seems to have stalled.

Push notifications are delayed, we have to manually open the app and then click on "allow". This issue is noticed in Iqoo Neo 6 device.

Will have to wait for the akamai community edition. The PR on the site does not tell us much aside from 'install this'. Maybe post more details or a migration path for the app would be nice.

What's new

Akamai MFA is regularly updated to deliver new features and improvements.