The Problem With The Azure And AWS SSO (now Identity Center) Method of MFA in a Picture

My method of requiring MFA — from two different sources — to execute jobs in containers is impossible with this method

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
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4 min readJun 7, 2024

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I wrote about automating prowler checks to validate Azure from an AWS EC2 instance here:

In that post I showed how you can use MFA with the Azure CLI.

But here’s the problem, in a nutshell.

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

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