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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
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Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

Additional business needs in a complex hybrid environment


The following section introduces some important business requirements that need to be addressed by the identity and access management solution architecture. We will focus on the following business needs:

  • Data classification: This is necessary for the decision process regarding which cloud services can be used and data moved

  • Identity protection: This provides an effective protection against common security threats relative to identity management and your local Active Directory

  • Device and certificate management: This provides control over data leakage and enhanced authentication scenarios using conditional access

Is data classification really needed?

One of the most important discussions we have with our customers is about their uncertainty over which data and identity information can be stored securely in the cloud and how this data can be efficiently identified. In particular, organizations with multi-forest environments or organizations...