From the course: Microsoft Azure: Identity and Access Management

Microsoft Entra ID overview

From the course: Microsoft Azure: Identity and Access Management

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Microsoft Entra ID overview

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- [Instructor] Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, is a cloud-based identity and access management service. Here's a great diagram from Microsoft that shows the role of Microsoft Entra ID. I like to think of Microsoft Entra ID as a control center. It provides identities for users, devices, and applications, and it connects services like Azure, Microsoft 365, and the numerous apps in the cloud or on-premises. Let's look at the Microsoft Entra ID user interface on Azure Portal. You will find a long list of functions like users, groups, devices, and identity governance. You can click a link to see more details. To help you learn Microsoft Entra ID functions, I will group them into four categories: management, security, governance, and monitoring. For management, Microsoft Entra ID helps you manage users and groups, register devices and applications, manage external identities, enable hybrid identities through Microsoft Entra Connect, assign roles and administrators, create administrative units, manage product licenses, and configure company branding. For security, Microsoft Entra ID provides a rich set of features like password reset, authentication methods, multifactor authentication, conditional access, identity protection, identity secure score, risk activities, and a security center. For governance, Microsoft Entra ID enables functions like entitlement management, privileged identity management, access reviews, and the lifecycle workflows. For monitoring, Microsoft Entra ID provides functions like usage and insights, sign-in logs, audit logs, and provisioning logs, log analytics, and workbooks. Microsoft Entra ID provides an integrated IAM, Identity and Access Management solution. It helps you manage and secure identities for employees, suppliers, and clients, and it enables seamless access to internal and external applications and data.

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