Operlity delivers risk-based, context-aware multi-factor authentication — protecting the Operlity platform and available as a standalone capability for organizations that want authentication strength to follow actual risk, instead of applying the same blunt challenge to every user on every login.
Applying the same blunt challenge to every user on every login is easy to explain and easy to deploy — and it teaches people to approve prompts without reading them.
Adaptive MFA evaluates device, location, network and behavior signals on every authentication, and challenges users only when the risk justifies it. When a sensitive action begins — a privileged activation, an approval decision, a configuration change — it steps assurance up at that moment, rather than over-challenging at the front door.
Every evaluation is recorded: the signals considered, the policy version applied, the decision reached and the factor actually used. Authentication strength becomes a reportable fact rather than an assumption.
| Capability | What it does |
|---|---|
| Risk-Based Authentication Policy | Define what strength each sign-in requires based on who the user is, what they are reaching and how risky the attempt looks — allow, challenge, step up or deny, with explicit deny always winning |
| Contextual Signal Evaluation | Every authentication is assessed against device recognition, location and impossible travel, network reputation, time of access, session age, unusual behavior and the sensitivity of the application being reached |
| Phishing-Resistant Factor Support | Full support for FIDO2/WebAuthn passkeys and hardware security keys, authenticator apps and push approval, with OTP fallbacks available — and policies that can require a phishing-resistant factor where the risk warrants it |
| Step-Up Authentication | Raise assurance mid-session at the moment it matters — before a privileged activation, an approval decision, a configuration change or access to a sensitive application — instead of over-challenging at the front door |
| Authentication Assurance Levels | Every session carries a measurable assurance level that applications and Operlity products can enforce against, so a sensitive operation can require a stronger authentication than the one the session started with |
| Adaptive MFA Audit Trail | A complete record of every evaluation — the signals considered, the policy version applied, the decision reached and the factor actually used — for security monitoring, investigation and compliance reporting |
The assurance level Adaptive MFA establishes does not stop at the login page — it is carried across the platform and enforced wherever a stronger authentication is required.
Adaptive policy protects the Operlity platform itself and is available as a standalone capability across your connected applications — one login, with the strength decided per attempt.
PAM can demand a fresh, stronger challenge before elevating a user to a production server — and refuse the elevation if that assurance is missing or stale.
MFA coverage and enrollment status feed roles, segregation of duties and access certification, giving reviewers the context of how an account is actually authenticated.
Coverage, enrollment and step-up decisions connect directly to your compliance and audit programs as control evidence.
Authentication weakness — unenrolled users, weak factors, repeated challenge failures — is measured and tracked as risk.
Adaptive MFA does not stop at the login page. The assurance level it establishes is carried across the Operlity platform — so Privileged Access Management can demand a fresh, stronger challenge before elevating a user to a production server, and refuse the elevation if that assurance is missing or stale.
Policies are versioned and explainable. Run a new policy in monitor mode against real authentication traffic before you enforce it, see exactly which users and applications it would have challenged, and read back precisely why any individual decision was made. Adaptive should not mean unaccountable.
As part of the Operlity platform, MFA coverage, enrollment and step-up decisions connect directly to your identity governance, audit and compliance programs — turning authentication strength into control evidence rather than a screenshot taken the week before an audit.