Today, Akamai announced a phish-proof multi-factor authentication (MFA) service -- Akamai MFA -- for the workforce that delivers all of the security benefits of FIDO2 with the frictionless end-user experience of a mobile push on a smartphone. Why has Akamai introduced this new service? \r\n When an employee logs in to access an application or service, there needs to be absolute certainty that it's the employee and not an attacker. After all, trusting and authenticating a doppelganger defeats one of the basic principles of Zero Trust, a network security model based on strict identity verification. \r\n MFA adds an additional layer of login authorization to increase that certainty. As the name suggests, it uses another factor, such as a text message or one-time password (OTP), alongside a username and password.…