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Hacking the Cloud – Exploiting Azure Active Directory/Entra ID
In the last chapter, we looked at Active Directory (AD) and on-premises authentication. In this chapter, we are looking at its successor and cloud identity provider (IdP): Azure Active Directory (AAD/Azure AD).
As of July 11, 2023, Microsoft renamed Azure AD to Entra ID. As this was just shortly announced before this book was released, we will refer to Entra ID just as Azure Active Directory, Azure AD or AAD in this chapter.
AAD is Microsoft’s cloud-based enterprise identity service. It provides single sign-on (SSO), Conditional Access, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect users against various attack vectors, no matter whether they were initiated on-premises or using ...
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