Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

Start empowering users and protecting corporate data, while managing identities and access with Microsoft Azure in different environments
Key Features

Understand how to identify and manage business drivers during transitions
Explore Microsoft Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) solution
Over 40 playbooks to support your learning process with practical guidelines

Book Description

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and access management are at the heart of Microsoft's software as service products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is crucial to master Microsoft Azure in order to be able to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively.

You'll begin by identifying the benefits of Microsoft Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of identity and access management as a service, you will get a full overview of the Microsoft strategy. Understanding identity synchronization will help you to provide a well-managed identity. Project scenarios and examples will enable you to understand, troubleshoot, and develop on essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information protection technologies.
What you will learn

Apply technical descriptions to your business needs and deployments
Manage cloud-only, simple, and complex hybrid environments
Apply correct and efficient monitoring and identity protection strategies
Design and deploy custom Identity and access management solutions
Build a complete identity and access management life cycle
Understand authentication and application publishing mechanisms
Use and understand the most crucial identity synchronization scenarios
Implement a suitable information protection strategy

Who this book is for

This book is a perfect companion for developers, cyber security specialists, system and security engineers, IT consultants/architects, and system administrators who are looking for perfectly up–to-date hybrid and cloud-only scenarios. You should have some understanding of security solutions, Active Directory, access privileges/rights, and authentication methods. Programming knowledge is not required but can be helpful for using PowerShell or working with APIs to customize your solutions.
Table of Contents

Building and Managing Azure Active Directory
Understanding Identity Synchronization
Exploring Advanced Synchronization Concepts
Monitoring Your Identity Bridge
Configuring and Managing Identity Protection
Managing Authentication Protocols
Deploying Solutions on Azure AD and ADFS
Using the Azure AD App Proxy and the Web Application Proxy
Deploying Additional Applications on Azure AD
Exploring Azure AD Identity Services
Creating Identity Life Cycle Management on Azure
Creating a New Security Culture
Identifying and Detecting Sensitive Data
Understanding Encryption Key Management Strategies
Configuring Azure Information Protection Solutions
Azure Information Protection Development Overview