Azure Security For Critical Workloads: Implementing Modern Security Controls for Authentication, Authorization and Auditing

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2. Identity and Access Management with Azure Active Directory

Sagar Lad¹  

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Navsari, India

 

Identity and access management (IAM) is the process of authenticating and authorizing security principles. Enterprises should govern and configure identity and access management to make sure that services, applications, users, and groups have correct access to data.

Azure Active Directory is an enterprise identity service that provides single sign-on (SSO) , multifactor authentication (MFA) , and conditional access to protect against security attacks.

This chapter covers the following ...