Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure: Empower users by managing and protecting identities and data

2nd Edition

by Jochen Nickel (Author)

Design, implement, and manage complex and hybrid identity and access management environments

Key Features

• Understand how to identify and manage business drivers during transitions
• Explore Microsoft's identity and access management as a service (IAMaaS) solution
• Get hands-on with implementing to IAM concepts with the help of over 40 playbooks

Book Description

Microsoft Azure and its identity and access management (IAM) are at the heart of Microsoft's Software as a Service (SaaS) products, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. With this book, you'll understand how mastering Microsoft Azure helps you to work with the Microsoft Cloud effectively.

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure starts by taking you through the benefits of Azure in the field of identity and access management. Working through the functionality of IAM as a service, you'll get a complete overview of the Microsoft strategy and discover how identity synchronization can help you to provide a well-managed identity. The book covers several project scenarios and examples to show you how to troubleshoot and develop essential authentication protocols and publishing scenarios. Finally, you'll will acquire a thorough understanding of Microsoft Information Protection technologies.

By the end of the book, you'll have developed the skills you need for planning and implementing a future-oriented and sustainable IAM strategy.

What you will learn

• Manage cloud-only, simple, and complex hybrid environments
• Implement the most suitable 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
• Explore the most crucial identity synchronization scenarios
• Implement a suitable information protection strategy
• Apply technical descriptions to your business needs and deployments

Who this book is for

This book is a perfect companion for developers, cybersecurity specialists, system and security engineers, IT consultants/architects, and system administrators interested in designing and implementing IAM solutions with Microsoft Azure. A basic understanding of security solutions and Active Directory is required. Although not necessary, some programming knowledge will help you to customize your solutions using PowerShell and APIs easily.

Table of Contents

1. Building and Managing Azure Active Directory
2. Understanding Identity Synchronization
3. Exploring Advanced Synchronization Concepts
4. Monitoring Your Identity Bridge
5. Configuring and Managing Identity Protection
6. Managing Authentication Protocols
7. Deploying Solutions on Azure AD and ADFS
8. Using the Azure AD App Proxy and the Web Application Proxy
9. Deploying Additional Applications on Azure AD
10. Exploring Azure AD Identity Services
11. Creating Identity Life Cycle Management on Azure
12. Creating a New Security Culture
13. Identifying and Detecting Sensitive Data
14. Understanding Encryption Key Management Strategies
15. Configuring Azure Information Protection Solutions
16. Azure Information Protection Development Overview