Enabling and Disabling MFA

By default, your Impossible Cloud Storage account does not have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled. However, turning on MFA is a snap and it significantly boosts the security of your account.

Impossible Cloud Storage Console provides the ability to enable MFA for you and your organization.

To enable MFA:

1. Navigate to the Profile Settings page.

2. Click the Multi-Factor Authentication switcher button to enable MFA. You will notice the switcher turn green, indicating that MFA is now active.

Once you have enabled MFA, you will be asked to set it up at your next login. You will need an authenticator application to generate a unique code to login to Impossible Cloud Storage Console.

The Impossible Cloud Storage Console's Multi-Factor Authentication supports various third-party authenticator applications, such as Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or others. Once you set up the MFA authentication, Impossible Cloud Storage Console will ask for the unique code that is generated on your chosen authenticator application at every log in.

As a root user in Impossible Cloud Storage Console, you have the option to enable/disable MFA for sub-users linked to your account. Additionally, root users can also enforce MFA policy to the whole organization to protect all access to Impossible Cloud Storage Console. Learn more about this on Organization-Wide Policies section.

If you enable the "Enforce MFA policy to all users in your organization" checkbox and confirm the change, the MFA becomes mandatory for all sub-users, making it impossible for any sub-user to disable MFA.

To disable MFA:

1. Go to the Profile Settings page.

2. Click the Multi-Factor Authentication switcher button to disable MFA. The switcher will turn grey, indicating that MFA is now inactive.

Please note, disabling MFA will revert your login process to using only your username and password.