Does Azure AD B2C support custom push notifications MFA?

Question

Hello! I'm evaluating multiple IAM solutions and one of the features that would be welcome is support for MFA using push notifications via our mobile application. Does Azure AD B2C support this kind of thing? If so, are there any SDKs out there for building the feature on mobile devices (iOS and Android)? Thanks!

Answer 1

Hello @Milan ,

Thanks for reaching out.

Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) integrates directly with Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication which support following Verification methods (Email, SMS, phone call and Microsoft Authenticator app - TOTP (preview) ) so that you can add a second layer of security to sign-up and sign-in experiences in your applications. So that you can enable multifactor authentication without writing a single line of code.

Unfortunately, when you use Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication along with Microsoft Authenticator app, Push notification is not supported as of today and this is in our backlog. However, there are many MFA partner integration which provides custom MFA with B2C and few of them does support push notifications. Example authy (Twilio ) : https://github.com/azure-ad-b2c/samples/tree/master/policies/custom-mfa-authy-app

Here is detailed list of Azure B2C MFA partner integration : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory-b2c/partner-asignio?pivots=b2c-user-flow

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Hi @Siva-kumar-selvaraj

Can you share any further information on the planned release date of adding push notifications to the Authenticator app when using Azure AD and AAD B2C? You mentioned in May that it's on the backlog. We are wanting to use this service but need to know the expected date.

Thanks,
Jason

Answer 3

Hi @Siva-kumar-selvaraj ,
We have adopted the present code-based approach for MS authenticator based MFA. Customer isn't very happy and constantly follows up on when we can deliver the push notification based solution.
It would be good to get a date your team has on the card at the moment. Or even better, if there was a way to see the Feature work-item on the board to know when its in progress so we can answer our customer accordingly on the status of things.

Thanks !
Mishal

Answer 4

Hi guys, is it still the case - AAD B2C doesn't support push notification using Microsoft Authenticator as 2FA? If it supports it now, would you mind provide the link to the instruction? Many thanks.