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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

Designing and applying risk-based Access Control


In the first section of this chapter we will discuss both the design required information for applying risk based Access Control. The main actor in this story is your ADFS and WAP infrastructure, which will help you to integrate such a solution in your environment. Obviously, there are many other technologies in the field, but we want to focus on the native components that are already in place with the use of an identity bridge. This will give you the opportunity to provide an efficient and flexible solution for providing Risk-Based Access Control. We will divide this section into the following topics to provide a better understanding:

  • Managing device registration

  • Managing authentication and authorization

  • The magic of claims rules for application access

The main focus will be on how to support a risk matrix, like the following simple example:

Note

The terms of the matrix (HBI, MBI, and LBI) define the business impact:

HBI stands for High Business...