Enable Two-Factor Authentication Using One-Time Passwords (OTPs)

After you have configured the back-end RADIUS service to generate tokens for the OTPs and ensured users have any necessary devices (such as a hardware token), set up a RADIUS server to interact with the firewall.

For specific instructions, refer to the documentation for your RADIUS server. In most cases, you need to set up an authentication agent and a client configuration on the RADIUS server to enable communication between the firewall and the RADIUS server. You must also define the shared secret to use for encrypting sessions between the firewall and the RADIUS server.

On each firewall that hosts the gateways and/or portal, create a RADIUS server profile. (For a small deployment, one firewall can host the portal and gateways.)

Select
Device
Server Profiles
RADIUS
.
Add
a new profile.
Enter a
Profile Name
for this RADIUS profile.
In the
Servers
area,
Add
a RADIUS instance, and then enter the following:
A descriptive
Name
to identify this RADIUS server.
The IP address of the
RADIUS Server
.
The shared
Secret
for encrypting sessions between the firewall and the RADIUS server.
The
Port
number on which the RADIUS server listens for authentication requests (default 1812).
Click
OK
to save the profile.

Create an authentication profile.

Select
Device
Authentication Profile
and
Add
a new profile.
Enter a
Name
for the profile. The name cannot contain spaces.
Select
RADIUS
as the authentication service
Type
.
Select the
Server Profile
you created for accessing your RADIUS server.
Enter the
User Domain
name. The firewall uses this value for matching authenticating users against Allow List entries and for User-ID group mapping.
Select a
Username Modifier
to modify the username/domain format expected by the RADIUS server.
Click
OK
to save the authentication profile.

Assign the authentication profile to the GlobalProtect portal and/or gateway.

You can configure multiple client authentication configurations for the portal and gateways. For each client authentication configuration, you can specify the authentication profile to apply to endpoints of a specific OS.

This step describes how to add the authentication profile to the portal or gateway configuration. For additional details on setting up these components, see GlobalProtect Portals and GlobalProtect Gateways.

Select
Network
GlobalProtect
Portals
or
Gateways
.
Select an existing portal or gateway configuration, or
Add
a new one. If you are adding a new portal or gateway, specify its name, location, and network parameters.
On the
Authentication
tab, select an
SSL/TLS service Profile
or
Add
a new profile.
Add
a new
Client Authentication
configuration, and then configure the following settings:
The
Name
of the client authentication configuration.
The endpoint
OS
to which this configuration applies.
The
Authentication Profile
you created in Create an authentication profile.
(
Optional
) A custom
Username Label
.
(
Optional
) A custom
Password Label
.
(
Optional
) A custom
Authentication Message
.
Click
OK
to save the configuration.

(

Optional

) Configure the portal or gateway to prompt for a username and password or only a password each time the user logs in. Saved passwords are not supported with two-factor authentication using OTPs because the user must enter a dynamic password each time they log in.

This step describes how to configure the password setting in a portal agent configuration. For additional details, see Customize the GlobalProtect App.

Select
Network
GlobalProtect
Portals
, and then select an existing portal configuration.
On the GlobalProtect Portal Configuration dialog, select
Agent
.
Select an existing agent configuration or
Add
a new one.
On the
Authentication
tab, set
Save User Credentials
to
Save Username Only
or
No
. This setting enables GlobalProtect to prompt users for dynamic passwords on each component that you select in the following step.
Click
OK
twice to save the configuration.

Select the GlobalProtect components—portal and types of gateways—that prompt for dynamic passwords, such as OTPs.

Select
Network
GlobalProtect
Portals
, and then select an existing portal configuration.
On the GlobalProtect Portal Configuration dialog, select
Agent
.
Select an existing agent configuration or
Add
a new one.
On the
Authentication
tab, select the
Components that Require Dynamic Passwords (Two-Factor Authentication)
. When selected, the portal and/or types of gateways prompt for OTPs.
Do not select the
Components that Require Dynamic Passwords (Two-Factor Authentication)
option for any components that use SAML authentication.
Click
OK
twice to save the configuration.

If single sign-on (SSO) is enabled, disable it. Because the agent configuration specifies RADIUS as the authentication service, Kerberos SSO is not supported.

This step describes how to disable SSO. For more details, see Define the GlobalProtect Agent Configurations.

Select
Network
GlobalProtect
Portals
, and then select an existing portal configuration.
On the GlobalProtect Portal Configuration dialog, select
Agent
.
Select an existing agent configuration or
Add
a new one.
On the
App
tab, set
Use Single Sign-on (Windows Only)
to
No
.
Click
OK
twice to save the configuration.

(

Optional

) To minimize the number of times a user must provide credentials, configure an authentication override.

By default, the portal or gateways authenticate the user with an authentication profile and optional certificate profile. With authentication override, the portal or gateway authenticates the user with an encrypted cookie that it has deployed to the endpoint. While the cookie is valid, the user can log in without entering regular credentials or an OTP. For more information, see Cookie Authentication on the Portal or Gateway.

If you must immediately block access to an endpoint whose cookie has not yet expired (for example, if the endpoint is lost or stolen), you can Identification and Quarantine of Compromised Device by adding the device to a quarantine list.

For more details, see GlobalProtect Portals and GlobalProtect Gateways.

Select
Network
GlobalProtect
Portals
or
Gateways
.
Select an existing portal or gateway configuration, or
Add
a new one.
Depending on whether you are configuring a portal or gateway, select one of the following:
GlobalProtect Portal Configuration
—On the GlobalProtect Portal Configuration dialog, select
Agent
<agent-config>
Authentication
.
GlobalProtect Gateway Configuration
—On the GlobalProtect Gateway Configuration dialog, select
Agent
Client Settings
<client-setting>
Authentication Override
.
Configure the following
Authentication Override
settings:
Name
of the authentication override.
Generate cookie for authentication override
—Enables the portal or gateway to generate encrypted, endpoint-specific cookies. After users successfully authenticate, the portal or gateway issue the authentication cookie to the endpoint.
The authentication cookie includes the following fields:
user
—Username that is used to authenticate the user.
domain
—Domain name of the user.
os
—Application name that is used on the device.
hostID
—Unique ID that is assigned by GlobalProtect to identify the host.
gen time
—Date and time that the authentication cookie was generated.
ip
—IP address of the device that is used to successfully authenticate to GlobalProtect and to obtain the cookie.
Accept cookie for authentication override
—Instructs the portal or gateway to authenticate the user through a valid, encrypted cookie. When the endpoint presents a valid cookie, the portal or gateway verifies that the cookie was encrypted by the portal or gateway, decrypts the cookie, and then authenticates the user.
The GlobalProtect app must know the username of the connecting user in order to match and retrieve the associated authentication cookies from the user’s endpoint. After the app retrieves the cookies, it sends them to the portal or gateway for user authentication.
(
Windows only
) If you set the Use Single Sign-On option to
Yes
(SSO is enabled) in the portal agent configuration (
Network
GlobalProtect
Portals
<portal-config>
Agent
<agent-config>.
App
), the GlobalProtect app uses the Windows username to retrieve the local authentication cookie for the user. If you set the
Use Single Sign-On
option to
No
(SSO is disabled), you must enable the GlobalProtect app to Save User Credentials in order for the app to retrieve the authentication cookie for the user. Set the
Save User Credentials
option to
Yes
to save both the username and password or
Save Username Only
to save only the username.
(
macOS only
) Because macOS endpoints do not support single sign-on, you must enable the GlobalProtect app to
Save User Credentials
in order for the app to retrieve the authentication cookie for the user. Set the
Save User Credentials
option to
Yes
to save both the username and password or
Save Username Only
to save only the username.
Cookie Lifetime
—Specifies the hours, days, or weeks that the cookie is valid. Typical lifetime is 24 hours for gateways—which protect sensitive information—or 15 days for the portal. The range for hours is 1–72; for weeks, 1–52; and for days, 1–365. After the cookie expires on either the portal or gateway (whichever occurs first), the portal or gateway prompts the user to authenticate, and subsequently encrypts a new cookie to send to the endpoint.
Certificate to Encrypt/Decrypt Cookie
—Specifies the RSA certificate to use to encrypt and decrypt the cookie. You must use the same certificate on the portal and gateways.
As a best practice, configure the RSA certificate to use the strongest digest algorithm that your network supports.
The portal and gateways use the RSA encrypt padding scheme PKCS#1 V1.5 to generate the cookie (using the public key of the certificate) and decrypt the cookie (using the private key of the certificate).
Click
OK
twice to save the configuration.

Commit

the configuration.

Verify the configuration.

From an endpoint running the GlobalProtect app, try to connect to the gateway or portal on which you enabled OTP authentication. You should see prompts similar to the following: