Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Softcover

Nickel, Jochen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785889443 ISBN 13: 9781785889448

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Start empowering users and protecting corporate data, while managing Identities and Access with Microsoft Azure in different environments

About This Book

• Deep dive into the Microsoft Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS) solution
• Design, implement and manage simple and complex hybrid identity and access management environments
• Learn to apply solution architectures directly to your business needs and understand how to identify and manage business drivers during transitions

Who This Book Is For

This book is for business decision makers, IT consultants, and system and security engineers who wish to plan, design, and implement Identity and Access Management solutions with Microsoft Azure.

What You Will Learn

• Apply technical descriptions and solution architectures directly to your business needs and deployments
• Identify and manage business drivers and architecture changes to transition between different scenarios
• Understand and configure all relevant Identity and Access Management key features and concepts
• Implement simple and complex directory integration, authentication, and authorization scenarios
• Get to know about modern identity management, authentication, and authorization protocols and standards
• Implement and configure a modern information protection solution
• Integrate and configure future improvements in authentication and authorization functionality of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016

In Detail

Microsoft Azure and its Identity and Access Management is at the heart of Microsoft’s Software as a Service, including Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Enterprise Mobility Management. It is an essential tool to master in order to effectively work with the Microsoft Cloud. Through practical, project based learning this book will impart that mastery.

Beginning with the basics of features and licenses, this book quickly moves on to the user and group lifecycle required to design roles and administrative units for role-based access control (RBAC). Learn to design Azure AD to be an identity provider and provide flexible and secure access to SaaS applications. Get to grips with how to configure and manage users, groups, roles, and administrative units to provide a user- and group-based application and self-service access including the audit functionality.

Next find out how to take advantage of managing common identities with the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 and build cloud identities with the Azure AD Connect utility. Construct blueprints with different authentication scenarios including multi-factor authentication. Discover how to configure and manage the identity synchronization and federation environment along with multi -factor authentication, conditional access, and information protection scenarios to apply the required security functionality.

Finally, get recommendations for planning and implementing a future-oriented and sustainable identity and access management strategy.

Style and approach

A practical, project-based learning experience explained through hands-on examples.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a focus and technical deep knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland and spends the majority of each work day planning, designing, and implementing Identity and Access Management solutions, single parts such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium and Microsoft Azure Rights Management Services, or complete Enterprise Mobility Suite solutions. He has also been part of many projects, proofs of concepts, reviews, reference architectures, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft V-TSP Security, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Switzerland, and uses his experience for directly managed business accounts in Switzerland. He has also been an established speaker at many technology conferences. As an active writer and reviewer, Jochen authored Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control and reviewed Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan, as well as Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook by Jordan Krause, a Microsoft MVP. He is also reviewing Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook for Packt Publishing. Committed to continuous learning, he holds Microsoft certifications such as MCSD Azure Solutions Architect, MCITP, MCSE/A Office 365/Private Cloud, MCTS, and many other security titles such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to recharge, in order to handle such interesting technologies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785889443
• ISBN 13: 9781785889448
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 692
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar