Two-Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) for BeyondTrust
BeyondTrust is a software and protocol which uses techniques to provide security to site-to-site connections. Also, it secures a point-to-point connection. You can enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for your BeyondTrust managed active directory to increase security level. When you enable 2FA, your users enter their username and password (first factor) as usual, The configured 2FA (OTP over SMS, Push Notifications, Google Authenticator etc) method prompts on for 2nd-step verification. After successfully signing in with both of the steps a user is granted access to the beyond trust account. This additional verification layer acts as a security measure and prevents unauthorized people from accessing the Beyond trust account by verifying your identity even if cyber attackers get to know your credentials.
Types of 2FA Authentication with RADIUS
The 2-factor authentication can be of two types depending on the clients.
- Clients that support RADIUS Challenge.
- Clients that do not support RADIUS Challenge.
miniOrange 2FA authentication for BeyondTrust Login
miniOrange accomplishes this by acting as a RADIUS server that accepts the username/password of the user entered as a RADIUS request and validates the user against the user store as Active Directory (AD). After the first level of authentication, miniOrange prompts the user with 2-factor authentication and either grants/revokes access based on the input by the user.
- Primary authentication initiates with the user submitting his Username and Password for BeyondTrust .
- User request acts as an authentication request to RADIUS Server(miniOrange).
- miniOrange RADIUS server passes user credentials to validate against the credentials stored in AD (Active Directory) / Database.
- Once the user's first level of authentication gets validated AD sends the confirmation to RADIUS Server.
- Now miniOrange RADIUS Server asks for a 2-factor authentication challenge to the user.
- Here user submits the response/code which he receives on his hardware/phone.
- User response is checked at miniOrange’s RADIUS Server side.
- On successful 2nd factor authentication the user is granted access to BeyondTrust .
What are different 2FA/MFA methods supported by miniOrange for BeyondTrust ?
miniOrange provides 15+ 2FA/MFA authentication methods for BeyondTrust : OTP over SMS-Email, Push Notification, Software Token, Google / Microsoft Authenticator etc. You can opt for any of the 2FA methods to secure your BeyondTrust . To integrate 2FA, you can enable RADIUS authentication in BeyondTrust and configure policies in miniOrange to enable or disable 2FA for users.
Connect with any External Directories
miniOrange provides user authentication from various external directories such as miniOrange Directory, Microsoft AD, Microsoft Entra ID/LDAP, AWS Cognito and many more.
Can't find your Directory? Contact us on idpsupport@xecurify.com
Enable Multi Factor Authentication MFA/2FA for BeyondTrust
1. Configure BeyondTrust in miniOrange
- Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
- Click on Customization in the left menu of the dashboard.
- In Basic Settings, set the Organization Name as the custom_domain name.
- Click Save. Once that is set, the branded login URL would be of the format https://<custom_domain>.xecurify.com/moas/login
- Go to Apps Click on Add Application button.
- In Choose Application, select RADIUS (VPN) from the application type dropdown.
- Click on BeyondTrust application tab. If you don't find your application click on Radius Client application tab.
- Click on "Click here" to get the Radius server IPs.
- Copy and save the Radius server IP which will be required to configure your Radius client.
- Configure the below details to add Radius Client.
| Client Name: |
Any name for your reference. |
| Client IP: |
IP address of VPN server which will send Radius authentication request. |
| Shared Secret: |
Security key.
For Eg. "sharedsecret"
(Keep this with you, you will need to configure same on VPN Server). |
- Click Next.
- Under the Attribute Mappings tab, enable the toggle if you want to Send Custom Attributes in response.
- To send groups in response, you can refer the below table for Vendor group attributes id.
| Vendor Name |
Vendor Attribute |
Value Type |
Attribute |
| Cisco ASA |
ASA-Group_policy |
User |
Groups |
| Fortinet |
Fortinet-Group-Name |
User |
Groups |
| Palo Alto |
PaloAlto-user-Group |
User |
Groups |
| SonicWall |
Sonicwall-user-group |
User |
Groups |
| Citrix |
Citrix-user-groups |
User |
Groups |
| Default(Can be used if your vendor is not in the list) |
Filter-Id |
User |
Groups |
- Value Type and Attribute can be changed based on the requirement.
- Click on Next to proceed.
- Configure the following Policy details for the Radius Client.
| Group Name: |
Group for which the policy will apply. |
| Policy Name: |
Any Identifier that specifies policy name. |
| Login Method |
Login Method for the users associated with this policy. |
| Enable 2-Factor Authentication |
Enables Second Factor during Login for users associated with this policy. |
| Enable Adaptive Authentication |
Enables Adaptive Authentication for Login of users associated with this policy. |
- After configuring the given above details, Click on Save button.
Note: You can follow
this guide, if you want to configure Radius MFA using MSCHAPv2 protocol.
NOTE: For On-Premise version follow the below steps before testing the connectivity.
Only For On-Premise Version
Open Firewall Ports.
- In order to receive the RADIUS request, it is necessary to open UDP traffic on ports 1812 and 1813 for the machine where On-Premise IdP is deployed.
- If the hosting machine is a Windows Machine then you can follow this document.
- If the hosting machine is a Linux Machine then you can follow this document.
NOTE: If your machine is hosted on AWS, then enable the ports from the AWS panel.
2. Configure BeyondTrust Server
- Open your BeyondTrust Server Admin Dashboard
- Go to Users & Security > Security Providers.
- From + Add option under Security Providers select RADIUS.
- You can choose to allow access only to specified users on your RADIUS server by entering username separated by a line break.
- To edit gropu policies go to Users & Security > Group Policiess. page.
- If you allow all, you must also specify a default group policy.
| Name: |
miniOrange RADIUS |
| Selected modules: |
Add the "RADIUS" module from the "Available modules" box |
| Selected policies: |
Add the desired policies from the "Available policies" box |
| RADIUS server: |
For on-premise version: IP of server where IDP(miniOrange) is installed
For cloud version: Contact us at info@xecurify.com to get the IP |
| Port: |
Specify the authentication port for your RADIUS server. This is typically port 1812. |
| Timeout (seconds): |
An ideal value is 3-5 seconds, with the maximum value at three minutes. |
| Shared Secret: |
Security Key that was configured in miniOrange IDP.
In step 1 we configured this as "sharedsecret" |
- Click on Save Changes button to save the RADIUS settings.
Creating User Groups (Recommended)
- Select Groups >> Manage Groups from left panel.
- Click on the Create Group button on the top.
- Enter an appropriate Group Name and click on Create Group.
- In this guide we have created a Group by name VPN_Group.
- Assign various members to the group using the Assign User option associated with the group in the groups list.
- Select the Users that are required to be assigned to this group. Then Select Assign to Group in Select Action Dropdown and click on Apply button.
- These groups will be helpful in adding multiple 2FA policies on the applications.
7. Setup MFA for BeyondTrust
Note: You can follow this guide, if you want to customize and enroll MFA for end users.
- Here, we will configure a policy for the User Group that we created in this step and associate it with the BeyondTrust VPN Application.
- Click on Policies tab >> App Login Policy.
- Click on Add Policy tab.
- In Application section, select the RADIUS App that we configured earlier in Step 1.
- Select the required User Group in Group Name and enter the Policy name.
- In this guide, we will configure a Password Only policy for "VPN_Group", so that only the VPN_Group members can access VPN Services without a Second Factor.
- Once done with the policy settings, click on Save to Add Policy.
8. Test 2FA for BeyondTrust Login
- Connect to the URL you normally use to log in to your BeyondTrust .
- Enter your AD username & password and click on Connect.
- Now, you will be prompted for the 2-factor authentication code. Enter the code and click on Continue.
- After successful validation, you will be connected to BeyondTrust .
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