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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
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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

Why do we need a security culture?


The ideas, duties, and behaviors of a group of people influence their security and can put them at risk, hence there is a need for security culture. In the professional world, security culture is used to describe the kinds of behaviors organizations would like to see in their employees in areas such as cyber, physical, and personal security. Security training and the change of the behavior of a co-worker to adapt to the safety guidelines of the enterprise are necessary. The main focus of a security culture is keeping infiltrators or other potentially damaging parties out. In our case, we will focus on the relevance to data security, because to handle the complete field of security goes beyond the scope and focus of this book. So, let's see what this means for us.

Digital transformation has reshaped the way we work. Data has become the new currency of business. Information such as development results, intended company acquisitions, sales account information...