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You're reading from 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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785889448

Length 692 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Networking

Authors (2):

Jochen Nickel

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with a Cloud-Only Scenario

2. Planning and Designing Cloud Identities FREE CHAPTER

3. Planning and Designing Authentication and Application Access

4. Building and Configuring a Suitable Azure AD

5. Shifting to a Hybrid Scenario

6. Extending to a Basic Hybrid Environment

7. Designing Hybrid Identity Management Architecture

8. Planning Authorization and Information Protection Options

9. Building Cloud from Common Identities

10. Implementing Access Control Mechanisms

11. Managing Transition Scenarios with Special Scenarios

12. Advanced Considerations for Complex Scenarios

13. Delivering Multi-Forest Hybrid Architectures

14. Installing and Configuring the Enhanced Identity Infrastructure

15. Installing and Configuring Information Protection Features

16. Choosing the Right Technology, Methods, and Future Trends

Applying the right security strategy for legal requirements

In this last section, we want to briefly explore the most important topics about Azure and security, so that you can get a toehold in this area to provide a suitable strategy for a hybrid approach. We start with service regions and finish with an overview of Microsoft certifications.

Service regions

To decide the correct strategy it's very important that you know that the core Azure Active Directory service is a global service. So your identities will be replicated over the whole world. For example, with Office 365 you can define in which location/datacenter the service should run. You say YEAH! - But what about the identities! Be aware that you need to be sure that your identities and the associated attributes are allowed to be replicated to the US.

Microsoft certifications

Microsoft invests a lot of money in governance, risk, and compliance to provide the best security strategies and controls for their customers. They have already...