Characteristics and Main Threats about Multi-Factor Authentication: A Survey

TL;DR

This survey analyzes the main characteristics and threats of multi-factor authentication solutions, providing a comprehensive overview and visual analysis to inform future research and security practices.

Contribution

It uniquely evaluates the characteristics and threats of authentication solutions through a systematic literature review and visual data presentation.

Findings

Identified key characteristics of multi-factor authentication

Mapped main threats associated with authentication solutions

Provided a visual portfolio analysis of the current state-of-the-art

Abstract

This work reports that the Systematic Literature Review process is responsible for providing theoretical support to research in the Threat Model and Multi-Factor Authentication. However, different from the related works, this study aims to evaluate the main characteristics of authentication solutions and their threat model. Also, it intends to list characteristics, threats, and related content to a state-of-art. As a result, we brought a portfolio analysis through charts, figures, and tables presented in the discussion section.