We're considering contingencies to MFA failures in light of recent service 
problems with Duo.

We're currently still using CAS 5.0.x. I'm assuming the property of interest 
for us here is cas.authn.mfa.globalFailureMode. The documentation doesn't 
really make this clear, but specifically what MFA is/isn't "communicated to the 
client if provider" is unavailable for PHANTOM/OPEN modes? How does these 
differ from NONE?

<https://apereo.github.io/cas/5.0.x/installation/Configuring-Multifactor-Authentication.html#fail-open-vs-fail-closed>

We also MFA enabled for each registered service with the following:

  "multifactorPolicy" : {
    "@class" : 
"org.apereo.cas.services.DefaultRegisteredServiceMultifactorPolicy",
    "multifactorAuthenticationProviders" : [ "java.util.LinkedHashSet", [ 
"mfa-duo" ] ],
    "failureMode" : "OPEN"
  }

I appears however, that setting cas.authn.mfa.globalFailureMode=NONE in 
cas.properties is not sufficient to disable/bypass MFA. I am still prompted for 
it. Should globalFailureMode in cas.properties take precedence over failureMode 
in the service registration, or vice versa? Or is this not the right way to 
achieve this goal? 

We are thinking that OPEN may not be desired in the rare cases where Duo may be 
technically available (how does CAS detemine Duo's availability?), but the 
service has degraded unacceptably.

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