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fix: add a bit of language around dynamic MFA for SEO #1490

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/kratos/mfa/01_overview.mdx
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or self-service actions, such as updating account information or credentials, from malicious actors.
For example, you might decide to require a user to log in with two factors right at the start of the session. Alternatively, you
could allow the user to start the session by logging in with the first factor and only require the second factor at the point
where the user is about to perform a security-sensitive operation. Read more about this in the
where the user is about to perform a security-sensitive operation. Read more about dynamic MFA in the
[step-up authentication](https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/mfa/step-up-authentication) document.

## Available methods
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---
id: step-up-authentication
title: Use step-up authentication to protect high-risk operations
sidebar_label: Step-up authentication
title: Use dynamic multi-factor (step-up) authentication to protect high-risk operations
sidebar_label: Dynamic Multi-Factor Authentication
---

# Step-up authentication
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- **Strict**, where secured operations always require the highest Authenticator Assurance Level (AAL).
- **Lax**, where the secured operations require only the `aal1` Authenticator Assurance Level (AAL).

In Ory Network, the default multi-factor authentication enforcement model is **Strict**. This means that high-risk operations via
self-service endpoints, such as updating user settings, require step-up authentication by default.

You can set the required authentication model for these operations/endpoints:

- User sign-in (getting an Ory Session) / `/sessions/whoami` endpoint
- Self-service user settings

In the Ory Network, the default multi-factor authentication enforcement model is **Strict**. This means that high-risk operations
such as updating user settings require step-up authentication by default.

## Configuration

```mdx-code-block
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</Tabs>
```

## Trigger step-up authentication
## Trigger Dynamic Multi-Factor authentication

You can make users complete a second authentication factor in their current session by initiating a new login flow using one of
these endpoints with the `aal` parameter set to `aal2`:
To protect your application's sensitive functions - like accessing payment details, an order history, or private content - you can
make users complete a second authentication factor in their current session by initiating a new login flow using one of these
endpoints with the `aal` parameter set to `aal2`:

- [`/self-service/login/browser`](../../reference/api.mdx#operation/initializeSelfServiceLoginFlowForBrowsers)
- [`/self-service/login/api`](../../reference/api.mdx#operation/initializeSelfServiceLoginFlowWithoutBrowser)
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