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title: What is a typical strong authentication (MFA) workflow?
description: The main strong authentication (MFA) flows are the authentication and registration flows. The following list represents the high-level steps required to configure a PingOne environment to enable strong authentication for your SSO applications and covers both Workforce and Customer use cases.
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# What is a typical strong authentication (MFA) workflow?

The main strong authentication (MFA) flows are the authentication and registration flows. The following list represents the high-level steps required to configure a PingOne environment to enable strong authentication for your SSO applications and covers both Workforce and Customer use cases.

1. [Create an environment](p1_create_environment_strong_authentication_start.html).

2. Create any applications to which you want to apply MFA. Learn more in [Adding an application](../applications/p1_applications_add_applications.html).

3. Perform general configurations. Learn more in [MFA Settings](../authentication/p1_mfa_settings.html).

4. [Configure an MFA policy](p1_creating_an_mfa_policy_for_strong_auth.html). Add and configure the the authentication methods that you want to enable.

5. [Perform additional configurations for the specific authentication methods that you added](p1_configuring_strong_authentication_start.html).

6. [Configure an authentication policy](../authentication/p1_authenticationpolicies.html). For environments that are not integrated with DaVinci, configure an authentication policy.

7. [Configure a risk policy](p1_configuring_pid_policy.html).

8. [Create an application](../applications/p1_applications_add_applications.html) and [Add MFA to the application in PingOne](../applications/p1_apply_auth_policy_to_applications.html).

9. (Optional) Configure relevant integrations: Learn more in [integrations for strong authentication](p1_strong_authentication_integrations.html).