Chapter 3: Managing Cloud Identities

Back in the days when IT security was synonymous with blocking network traffic, life was easy. You could be sure that your physical walls constituted your perimeter, so you simply needed to protect your borders. However, today, your network endpoints are no longer enough to secure your perimeter. Today, we see an increasing number of phishing and credential theft attacks against corporate environments. We're in an age where corporate data is moving out of its secure enterprise network environment. It's the age of cloud services such as Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, and so traditional security strategies aren't enough to safeguard data as the data is outside secure walls. We need a new approach to add on top of the traditional approach. This new approach is identity is the new perimeter. This makes identity something we need to protect more than ever before. Of course, this does not mean that we have to do away with the old method...