Azure AD
Azure AD is a cloud-based identity as a service (IDaaS) offering and, hitherto, the only authentication and identity management process that's integrated with the resource manager for distributed applications developed on the Azure infrastructure. Azure AD is used to manage access to any SaaS/PaaS resources in resource groups. It supports protocols such as OpenID Connect, oAuth, and SAML to provide SSO and access control to resources within a directory.
The authorization for access to and between resources can be set up using the identity principles defined within the directory. The principle can represent a user with a single organization (possibly with an associated on-premise Active Directory), an application (a resource that's ...
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