After reading this chapter you should be able to explain and design the authentication and authorization capabilities of Azure Active Directory. You should know which functions, protocols, and interfaces Azure AD provides as an identity provider and you should be able to design a flexible and secure application workplace for the business to improve its productivity. Additionally, you will have seen the different reports for monitoring your solution. This will help you to design a proactive security solution and to mitigate security issues. Let's move on to implementing a designed example solution - see you in the next chapter!
Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure
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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure
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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
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Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with a Cloud-Only Scenario
Planning and Designing Cloud Identities
Planning and Designing Authentication and Application Access
Building and Configuring a Suitable Azure AD
Shifting to a Hybrid Scenario
Extending to a Basic Hybrid Environment
Designing Hybrid Identity Management Architecture
Planning Authorization and Information Protection Options
Building Cloud from Common Identities
Implementing Access Control Mechanisms
Managing Transition Scenarios with Special Scenarios
Advanced Considerations for Complex Scenarios
Delivering Multi-Forest Hybrid Architectures
Installing and Configuring the Enhanced Identity Infrastructure
Installing and Configuring Information Protection Features
Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends
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