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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and access management are at the heart of Microsoft's software as service products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is crucial to master Microsoft Azure in order to be able to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively. You’ll begin by identifying the benefits of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of identity and access management as a service, you will get a full overview of the Microsoft strategy. Understanding identity synchronization will help you to provide a well-managed identity. Project scenarios and examples will enable you to understand, troubleshoot, and develop on essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information protection technologies.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Exploring Azure AD B2C


Azure AD B2C builds a complete identity-management framework for developers and supports signing in to your application using social networks, such as Facebook, Google, or LinkedIn, and creating developed accounts with usernames and passwords specifically for your company-owned application. Self-service password management and profile management are also provided. Additionally, Azure MFA introduces a higher grade of security to the solution. Principally, this feature allows for small, medium, and large companies to hold their customers in a separate Azure Active Directory, with all the capabilities, and more, in a similar way to the corporate-managed Azure Active Directory. With different verification options, you are also able to provide the necessary identity assurance required for more sensible transactions. Azure AD B2C takes care of all of the IAM tasks for your own development activities.

Basically, the minimum architecture with the usage of Azure AD B2C looks...