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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

By : Jochen Nickel
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Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure

3.7 (3)
By: Jochen Nickel

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.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Identity Management and Synchronization
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Section 2: Authentication and Application Publishing
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Section 3: Data Classification and Information Protection

OAuth 2.0

In simple words, authentication is the act of proving who you are, whereas authorization is the act of determining what you can do. OAuth 2.0 is about delegated authorization and not about authentication. It is not a protocol, it's an authorization framework defined in the RFC 6749, The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework. This can be confusing because there are many cases in which you use OAuth 2.0 to log in to a client web application.

The authentication process must end by figuring out and validating the identity of the end user, but OAuth doesn't do that. OAuth provides time-based tokens, which can be used to access a resource on behalf of the end user without providing any identity information about the end user.

OAuth 2.0 is the existing standard for API security and is a major breakthrough in identity delegation.

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