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title: Adding an MFA policy
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# Adding an MFA policy

Create a multi-factor authentication (MFA) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>An electronic authentication method where a user is granted access only after presenting two or more verification factors for authentication.\</p>
\</div>)* policy and then add it as a step to your authentication policy.

For details about how to configure an MFA policy, see [Configuring an MFA policy for strong authentication](../strong_authentication_mfa/p1_creating_an_mfa_policy_for_strong_auth.html).

You can find more information in [Updating an existing MFA policy to use FIDO2](../strong_authentication_mfa/p1_updating_an_mfa_policy_to_fido2.html).