Salesforce MFA flowchart
Summary
This content addresses the challenges nonprofits face in complying with Salesforce’s upcoming MFA requirements, especially regarding shared volunteer logins. It offers practical options like the Salesforce Authenticator app, open-source tools like Ente Auth, and compliant password managers that support shared credential storage. Salesforce teams can leverage these tools to maintain security while accommodating shared access needs, with the insight that keypass usage can speed up login compared to the standard authenticator.
Takeaways
- Nonprofits often share Salesforce logins due to volunteer user constraints.
- Salesforce Authenticator is the standard MFA mobile app option.
- Ente Auth enables sharing MFA tokens via an open-source solution.
- Compliant password managers support shared credential storage for MFA.
- Using a keypass can speed up Salesforce login over the Authenticator app.
In speaking with a nonprofit client today, they asked about all the options available for Salesforce’s upcoming MFA rules. As you may know, nonprofits are notorious for sharing user logins. This is because they often have volunteers that use the same login one-at-a-time. So I built this flowchart that may help you. Regarding step: This is the standard Salesforce Authenticator app for your mobile device. Ente Auth is a free, open-source application that allows users to share MFA tokens. Bitwarden, 1Password, Dashlane, LastPass, Keeper, and NordPass are all password managers that comply with the stricter rules. They also allow you to log in to SF from any computer with your password manager installed. All of these password managers should also allow you to store the user name, password, and keypass in a shared folder. This allows multiple users to share credentials. The takeaway Using a keypass is actually faster than using the Salesforce Authenticator app.