Spring Security vs Azure Multi-Factor Authentication: What are the differences?
Spring Security: A powerful and highly customizable authentication and access-control framework. It is a framework that focuses on providing both authentication and authorization to Java applications. The real power of Spring Security is found in how easily it can be extended to meet custom requirements; Azure Multi-Factor Authentication: It helps safeguard access to data and applications while maintaining simplicity for users. It helps safeguard access to data and applications while maintaining simplicity for users. It provides additional security by requiring a second form of authentication and delivers strong authentication via a range of easy to use authentication methods. Users may or may not be challenged for MFA based on configuration decisions that an administrator makes.
Spring Security can be classified as a tool in the "Security" category, while Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is grouped under "User Management and Authentication".
Some of the features offered by Spring Security are:
- Comprehensive
- Servlet API integration
- Protection against attacks
On the other hand, Azure Multi-Factor Authentication provides the following key features:
- Mobile app as a second factor
- Phone call as a second factor
- SMS as a second factor
Spring Security is an open source tool with 4.6K GitHub stars and 3.82K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spring Security's open source repository on GitHub.
