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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

User and group-based application access management


For authorization, Azure Active Directory delivers many methods. As we already discussed in Chapter 2Planing and Designing Cloud Identities groups are a preferred way of providing users with the correct permissions and access to their applications. It's good practice that users work with the Access Control Panel UI and access their applications, change the password, and add verification options. With this option, you can also allow the user to build his own preferred workplace. For example he can add his own applications and leave the passwords secure in Azure Active Directory, benefitting from SSO.

Generally, Azure Active Directory provides three main concepts for authorization:

  • Direct: The user will be directly authorized

  • Group-based: Rule based or Delegated

  • Role-based: The developer can publish his own application roles

The following figure shows the complete context:

The following section describes the different methods for these...