Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel

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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

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By: Jochen Nickel

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Overview of this book

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.

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Section 1: Identity Management and Synchronization

Building and Managing Azure Active Directory

Implementation scenario overview

Implementing a solid Azure Active Directory

Creating and managing users and groups

Assign roles to administrative units

Protect your administrative accounts

Provide user and group-based application access

Password reset self-service capabilities

Using standard security monitoring

Integrating Azure AD Join for Windows 10 clients

Configuring a custom domain

Configure Azure AD Domain Services

Summary

Understanding Identity Synchronization

Technology overview

Synchronization scenarios

Synchronization terms and processes

Summary

Exploring Advanced Synchronization Concepts

Preparing your lab environment

Understanding declarative provisioning and expressions

Synchronization rules explained

Special considerations in advanced synchronization concepts

Summary

Monitoring Your Identity Bridge

How Azure AD Connect Health works

Azure AD monitoring and logs

Azure Security Center for monitoring and analytics

Summary

Configuring and Managing Identity Protection

Microsoft Identity Protection solutions

Azure ATP and how to use it

Azure AD Identity Protection

Using Azure AD PIM to protect administrative privileges

Summary

Section 2: Authentication and Application Publishing

Managing Authentication Protocols

Microsoft identity platform

Common token standards in a federated world

Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0

WS-Federation

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect (OIDC)

Pass-through authentication and seamless SSO

Multi-factor authentication

Summary

Deploying Solutions on Azure AD and ADFS

Basic environment installation and configuration

Azure AD authentication deployments

ADFS Authentication deployments

Integrating Azure MFA (YD1ADS01)

Summary

Using the Azure AD App Proxy and the Web Application Proxy

Configuring additional applications for Azure AD and ADFS

Publishing with Windows server and Azure AD Web Application Proxy

Using conditional access

Summary

Deploying Additional Applications on Azure AD

Preparing your lab environment

What defines single- and multi-tenant applications

Deploying a single-tenant application including roles and claims

Moving the single-tenant app to a multi-tenant scenario

Deploying another multi-tenant app with OpenID Connect

Summary

Exploring Azure AD Identity Services

Preparing your lab environment

Understanding Azure AD B2B

Exploring Azure AD B2C

Extending Active Directory solutions with Azure AD Domain Services

AD FS as an on-premise identity service for the cloud

Summary

Creating Identity Life Cycle Management in Azure

Lab environment readiness

Handling the guest user life cycle

Azure services for automation

Summary

Section 3: Data Classification and Information Protection

Creating a Security Culture

Why do we need a security culture?

Pillars of a good security culture

General overview of data classification

Azure Information Protection (AIP) overview

Summary

Identifying and Detecting Sensitive Data

Extending your lab environment

Understanding and using AIP capabilities for data in motion

Understanding and using AIP capabilities for data at rest

Summary

Understanding Encryption Key Management Strategies

Azure Information Protection key basics

How Azure RMS works under the hood

Summary

Configuring Azure Information Protection Solutions

Preparing to configure and manage AIP

Azure RMS management with PowerShell

Configuring AIP

Summary

Azure Information Protection Development

Technical requirements

Microsoft Information Protection solutions

Understanding the Microsoft Information Protection SDK

Preparing your Azure AD environment for tests

Using MIP binaries to explore functionality

Using PowerShell with Azure Information Protection

Overview of the RMS 2.1 and 4.2 SDKs

Summary

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Building and Managing Azure Active Directory

Working with the several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM or Visual Studio Online requires well-managed identities and an excellent basic structure in the Azure Active Directory (AD) that builds the heart of these solutions. You, as an administrator, need to provide a stable identity and access management platform to manage these services.

This chapter explains how to configure a suitable Azure AD tenant, which we use throughout the whole book to explore, understand, and configure the different features and functions in the field of identity and access management with Microsoft Azure. We start with the cloud-only components, followed in the next chapters by the hybrid identity and access management approach.

In this chapter, we go directly to the configuration and learn how to configure and...