Secure Emergency Access: Create and Manage Microsoft Entra Emergency Accounts with YubiKey (FIDO2)

A Microsoft Entra Emergency Account (Break Glass Account) is a highly privileged account for emergency access to Azure resources in critical situations when traditional access paths are not available. For example, this may be a service outage, so that multi-factor authentication cannot be performed via a mobile phone. The use…

04/12/2023 Article Bloggers Oliver Müller

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