From the course: Cloud Security and Audit Fundamentals: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
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Identity and access management in Azure
From the course: Cloud Security and Audit Fundamentals: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
Identity and access management in Azure
- [Instructor] Let us get into Azure Active Directory, also known as Microsoft Entra ID. Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive identity and access management service for managing identities and access to resources in Microsoft Azure. I'll provide four key best practices to implement. The first thing to focus on is the highly powerful roles, specifically global administrator. Think of the global administrator role as having the keys to the entire kingdom. You will want to examine all the individual accounts in this roles with a microscope. Another highly privileged role is the user administrator role. The user administrator role has keys to all the users and groups and can also reset passwords for some administrators. You want to ensure users in both these roles are limited and they're only required for business purposes. Azure Active Directory, also known as Azure AD, recommends that you require multifactor authentication…
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