Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage an authentication sequence. An example disclosed apparatus includes a verification engine to verify whether a platform policy sequence is authorized for the platform, when the platform policy sequence is authorized, a policy sequence engine to extract an ordered sequence of credential types from the platform policy sequence, in response to a platform log in request, a platform instruction engine to transmit an instruction for a first one of the credential types associated with a first sequence position of the platform policy sequence, to determine whether a response to the instruction contains a value indicative of the first credential type, and when the response contains the value indicative of the first credential type, comparing the value to a first threshold confidence value, and a platform authorization engine to unlock platform functionality when the value indicative of the first credential type satisfies the first threshold confidence value.