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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and Access Management is at the heart of Microsoft’s Software as a Service, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is an essential tool to master in order to effectively work with the Microsoft Cloud. Through practical, project based learning this book will impart that mastery. Beginning with the basics of features and licenses, this book quickly moves on to the user and group lifecycle required to design roles and administrative units for role-based access control (RBAC). Learn to design Azure AD to be an identity provider and provide flexible and secure access to SaaS applications. Get to grips with how to configure and manage users, groups, roles, and administrative units to provide a user- and group-based application and self-service access including the audit functionality. Next find out how to take advantage of managing common identities with the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 and build cloud identities with the Azure AD Connect utility. Construct blueprints with different authentication scenarios including multi-factor authentication. Discover how to configure and manage the identity synchronization and federation environment along with multi -factor authentication, conditional access, and information protection scenarios to apply the required security functionality. Finally, get recommendations for planning and implementing a future-oriented and sustainable identity and access management strategy.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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16. Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

Chapter 12. Advanced Considerations for Complex Scenarios

This chapter is the starting point of our journey to the advanced hybrid identity and access management islands, and of course, solutions. First, we will discuss some important additional business needs in complex hybrid environments, followed by the features required to complete the solution architecture for fulfilling these business requirements. We will stripe features for managing privileged identities and the associated protection mechanisms. Furthermore, we will discuss some aspects of device management, including the new Microsoft Enterprise Data Protection strategy. (Be aware that there is an other product with the same name.) On top of these feature sets, we will provide you with the relevant information for efficient certificate management. In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

  • Additional business needs in a complex hybrid environment
    • Is data classification really needed?
    • Why do we need identity protection...