Azure Active Directory for Secure Application Development

Preface

Every organization needs protection against cyberattacks and security threats. Cybercrime and malware are constant threats to anyone with an internet presence. Security is one of the most important topics in IT projects nowadays and every developer, architect, and IT professional needs to have some knowledge of it. It is also one of the key elements that spans across every layer in your IT landscape. It needs to be embedded in your infrastructure, data, and applications, among others. That is also the case for cloud environments, such as Microsoft Azure.

This results in Azure Active Directory being the core service inside Azure that ties everything together from an identity and security perspective. The Microsoft identity platform is ...