Identity and Access Management
IAM, or Identity and Access Management is all about how you keep your resources
secure. With Azure, you get a range of identity and access solutions, helping you to
defend and protect your data from malicious logins, and your credentials are secured
using access controls that are fully risk-based, tools to help protect identity and the
strongest of options for authentication, all without any disruption to your business
productivity.
The main feature on offer by Azure to help with this is the Azure Active Directory. An
integral component of many Azure services, Azure AD helps to centralize IAM so that
deep security is enabled, along with productivity and management across apps, devices,
data and infrastructure. Azure AD works with applications in the cloud, in-site and in
hybrid environments, as well as on mobile devices. Using just one identity, users will be
able to launch all their applications from one web panel that is simple to access and use,
regardless of platform.
And Azure AD makes collaboration with external users easier while maintaining full
control over gets to see and use your data. With more control over IAM, businesses can
cut costs and increase the efficiency of their IT teams, while maintaining full security
and threat detection without any decrease in business productivity.
Azure Identity and Access Management Categories:
- Azure Active Directory – provides all the tools necessary to help you protect
identities and control and manage access to data, both in hybrid and in full cloud
environments - Azure Active Directory B2C – B2C, or Business to Consumer, is a secure
service that offers the tools to help manage customer identities and keep them
protected, as well as assisting with access management, using a range of security
tools and features - Azure Active Directory Domain Services – join together your VMs and a
domain without the need to deploy any domain controllers. - Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management – provides full
management and control of data access to resources in all Azure resources, along
with other Microsoft online services such as Office 365.