Azure Security

2 Securing identities in Azure: The four pillars of identity and Azure Active Directory

This chapter covers

• The four pillars of identity
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Custom roles
• Identity governance

NOTE Microsoft has recently renamed Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID and the Azure Active Directory Premium P2 plan to Microsoft Entra ID P2. See http://mng.bz/yQXB for more information.

Securing identities is a fundamental building block of securing any Azure environment. Yet, many application developers and IT managers I talk to say they often lose track of who has access and to what. This problem is further compounded by the fact that people responsible for giving access to users don’t always know what resources users actually need ...