This might be more of a feature request. Microsoft has a huge initiative to move their own internal AD to AzureAD, we well as we are moving clients to AzureAD. (Our organization including). We have also enabled MFA (multi factor) authentication for clients too added security.
It would be nice if Meraki would support Azure AD for authentication or a simple combination of a way to use a RADIUS/Azure AD (with MFA support).
We've looked at some 3rd party RADIUS providers that have support for Azure AD - but the MFA/2FA seems to be issues.
Ideally we'd like to use 8021.X for both enterprise WiFi access and switch port access for Windows 10 devices connected directly to the switch.
Thanks for any feedback, comments, real-work experience, thoughts. Thanks!
-Ingram
Using 2FA for 802.1x would be really painful.
Take WiFi for example; if you are not using fast roaming or 802.11r you could potentially be asked for 2FA authentication everytime you roam between access points. On the wired side you could be asked to 2FA everytime your machine rebooted.
If you really want that I think you might be better of using certificate based authentication with 802.1X and roll out a PKI solution.
I agree if it prompted over and over wouldn't be useful, but
When we use MFA/2FA with other applications like Outlook, Skype for Business, or other website resources they don't re-prompt for MFA until a policy timeout period (30 days, etc). To me it seems the world is heading this direction, why not wireless authentication (or at least for a period of policy timeout).
Microsoft's RADIUS Network Policy server supports RADIUS with MFA,
SourceURL:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/multi-factor-authentication/nps-extension-vpn
VPN integration with Azure MFA using NPS extension | Microsoft Docs
Hello,
We are also using Azure AD and I made this wish (Meraki supporting Azure AD authentication) a few months ago... in the meantime I developed a suitable solution to support Azure AD authentication on our wifi network. Check the post here: https://community.meraki.com/t5/Wireless-LAN/Configure-a-splash-EXCAP-with-with-sign-on-in-Azure-AD/...
A quick update to.. We've developed a click-thru webapp that uses graph API to seamlessly login the user (SSO to O365), authorize to the meraki, and then redirect the user to their original page.
By setting the duration of the authorization in the Meraki dashboard you can have it re-authorize every 90 days for example or revoke the authorization manually.
If there is enough interest, we'll polish the solution up and provide it as either source code or a possible service if there is enough interest. Let me know. Thanks!
-Ingram
Was this ever polished up by chance?
Hi,
Is this click-thru webapp available anywhere?
Ravi
I try and avoid 2FA as far as reasonable possible, because it causes endless headaches on a day to day basis once deployed. Fortunately, developments in technology have made it simple to drop 2FA without giving up on security. I used to have a separate PINsentry for each of my bank accounts, but haven't used them since I set up banking apps on smart devices, and now we have the likes of Windows Hello and are spoiled for choice for USB fingerprint readers. So a combination of biometrics, a password manager and certificates delivers a seamless authentication and authorisation process.