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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

Azure Information Protection (AIP) overview


Microsoft has developed a complete data-classification and data-protection solution to meet the current and future needs of its customers and partners. AIP was designed based on the following form factors:

  • Classify your data based on sensitivity
  • Protect your data at all times
  • Add visibility and control for users and administrators
  • Support a more secure way of collaborating
  • Easy-to-use toolset
  • High deployment and management capabilities

 

The following diagram shows the high-level architecture of AIP and the related security services. In the coming chapters, we will do a deep dive into each component and build a sample solution configuration:

The following benefits are provided by AIP:

  • Policy settings: The administrators of AIP are provided with a set of the most common default labels, which can be modified to fit your requirements and needs

The following example shows the new Unified Labeling capabilities through the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance...