You don't win the race with just one belt: why MFA is not Zero Trust

The belt is mandatory, but not enough to win.

In Formula 1, every car travels at more than 300 km/h. Every corner is an opportunity to win - or a latent threat. That's why the single-seaters don't just have seat belts: they have pressure sensors, intelligent braking systems, fire protection, real-time telemetry and a team of engineers analyzing every millisecond from the pit lane.

Now let's translate that scenario to the enterprise world. Today, many organizations believe they are secure just because they have implemented multi-factor authentication (MFA). But the reality is that, in a hyper-connected environment, basic MFA is just the seat belt in a race that requires much more to stay competitive... and secure.

False sense of security: when MFA becomes a goal rather than a starting point.

True: implementing MFA is a necessary step. But it is not nearly enough to deal with modern threats such as:

• Advanced phishing with social engineering.
• Session hijacking through stolen cookies.
• Malicious or negligent internal access.
• Shadow IT and unauthorized applications.

The problem is that many organizations get stuck there. They feel protected because there is a second factor. But in practice, they continue to grant access by default, with static policies and without considering who is accessing, from where, with what device and in what context.

That is not Zero Trust.

Zero Trust: like a winning team, where every detail counts

In an F1 team, the car is just one part of the whole. There is strategy, data, contextual decisions in real time. This is also how the Zero Trust model powered by Okta works:

• Contextual intelligence: Okta doesn't just validate a password or token. It evaluates if the behavior is habitual, if the location is expected, if the device is trusted.

• Adaptive accessAdaptive Access: Not all users and situations require the same level of control. Okta adapts the type of authentication to the risk situation, in real time.

• Minimum access required: Access is not granted by generic "role". It is assigned under the principle of least privilege, avoiding lateral movements of attackers.

• Continuous evaluation: At Zero Trust, trust is not permanent. Active sessions are monitored and access is revoked if conditions change.

With TEC360 and Okta, we help your organization evolve from reactive measures to a preventive, dynamic and adaptive security architecture. Like a Formula 1 team, each piece matters, and the system only works when everything is perfectly orchestrated.

Talk to a TEC360 consultant today and accelerate towards a real Zero Trust model.