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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 (22 chapters)
Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
16
Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

Planning the correct connectivity to your Azure infrastructure


With the extension of your current infrastructure to the Azure services, you need to think about the topic of connectivity. Azure provides and supports three types of connection, two server, and one client-focused option. A server connection is always between your current network infrastructure and Azure virtual networks. The three connection types are as follows:

  • Site-to-Site VPN (server-focused)

  • Express Route (server-focused)

  • Point-to-Site (client-focused)

Generally, we can use the following principles to use the different types:

  • Use a Site-to-Site connection when:

    • Building hybrid solutions

    • Connections need to be persistent and without client-side configuration

  • Use a Point-to-Site connection when the following apply:

    • Configuration of a few clients that need to access the virtual network

    • Administrative remote access

    • Combinations of S2S connections with small groups of single clients (small branches)

    • You have a VPN device that doesn't match...