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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

By : Jochen Nickel
Book Image

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

Azure services for automation


This year, at Microsoft Ignite, Mark Wahl presented a new feature set. This feature set is called Azure AD Identity Governance, which is in private preview. I will give you an idea of the public information.

Identity is the control panel and merges user experience, business needs, and security requirements together. You need to ensure that the correct users get the right access to the correct and required resources at any time. Azure AD Identity Governance is the set of capabilities for this. They enable you to define access policies and monitor your identities. Microsoft is developing a complete suite of governance capabilities for Azure AD, including two powerful new features: Entitlement management and My Access.

 

Admins will be able to create policies for resources, such as groups, apps, and sites, with the upcoming entitlement management. It will provide the automated process of granting access to employees and partners. The My Access portal gives employees...