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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By : Robert Rybaric
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Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture

By: Robert Rybaric

Overview of this book

For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly with various Microsoft 365 and Azure components. Unlike most other resources that are overwhelmingly long and unstructured, this book covers essential concepts using concise yet practical examples to help you save time. You’ll develop the skills you need to architect, design, and manage a complex solution as you follow the journey of a fictitious enterprise customer as they enter the world of Power Platform. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how to combine the functionality of Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual Agents with various methodologies to effectively address application lifecycle management, security, and extensibility. Finally, you'll learn how to overcome common challenges in migrating data to and from Microsoft Power Platform using proven techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have the strategic perspective of an enterprise architect to make accurate architectural decisions for your complex Power Platform projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: The Architecture
8
Section 3: Implementation

Getting an overview of IT security

IT security is a very complex area with the ultimate goal of protecting IT systems and IT networks from damage and disruption, and to protect the data and other assets from theft and misuse. Security has grown from a small and not so important aspect in the past to one of the key pillars in today's business world, and its importance is even higher with the rise of cloud computing. IT security can be categorized into the following main areas:

  • Security: Dealing with securing hardware and software from any damage and unauthorized access.
  • Privacy and data protection: Dealing with protecting the data that's managed in IT systems from theft and misuse.
  • Compliance: Dealing with meeting legal IT-related obligations of the government and other authorities.

In this chapter, we will describe all three areas, with a special focus on the Microsoft Power Platform security aspects.

Authentication versus authorization

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