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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
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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

Understanding the user and group life cycle


One of the basic concepts to understand is the user and group life cycle, so it's very important to understand the different repositories and capabilities where objects are stored and managed. In this section, we will provide you with the necessary information for designing your solution.

Microsoft Azure Identity repositories and capabilities

IAM is a very broad field in technology. Internet threats are becoming more intelligent and effective, so IAM solutions must constantly evolve to keep up. In particular, these solutions must address the four most important fields in order to be successful. The four main topics are the administration, authentication, authorization, and auditing of identities. With Microsoft Azure, you get several options for leveraging identity and access management solutions.

Azure Active Directory is the central and main identity repository for the whole Microsoft Azure landscape. The existence of an Azure AD directory is a...