Azure Security Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Defending Your Enterprise Environment

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K. OtsAzure Security Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7292-3_2

2. Identity and Access Management

Karl Ots¹  

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Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

 

In this chapter, we are going to learn about one of the fundamental building blocks of cloud-native security – identity and access management. After reading this chapter, you will be able to design secure access control solutions for your Azure administrative and application access.

Azure Active Directory

Identity is the new perimeter in the public cloud world, and there is no identity and access management in Azure without Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD). Regardless of your identity provider (IdP) solution, ...