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Streamlining SSO with Azure AD Connect Synchronization

Understanding password hash synchronization: Password hash synchronization involves storing passwords as a fixed-size string of characters, known as a hash value. It is a one-way process, which means the original data can’t be derived from the hash. When you enter your plaintext password, it is hashed and compared with the stored hash for authentication.This mechanism ensures that your…
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Mastering Azure AD B2B integration for external collaboration

Why Azure Active Directory (AD) connect and Azure B2B integration is necessary? In today’s interconnected corporate environment, successful collaboration with stakeholders and external partners is essential. Therefore, a robust structure that ensures efficiency and security, and enables continuous resource sharing is necessary. Azure Active Directory B2B and Azure Active Directory Connect…
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Essential practices for remote access data security

Why you should ensure data security in remote access? As more employees opt for remote work, ensuring strong data security practices becomes vital for any organization. However, the remote work environment has given adversaries an easy target. Employees without sufficient knowledge of data security can fall victim to phishing, ransomware, or malware injections. To prevent your network from being…
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Identity Governance in Azure AD: Best practices for implementation

To improve security and compliance in their digital environments, enterprises must first implement Identity Governance in Azure Active Directory (AD), which includes privileged identity management (PIM) and access reviews. Imagine your organization’s resources as a vast digital kingdom. Identity governance in Azure AD acts as your loyal steward, ensuring only authorized individuals have…
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Best Practices for Designing, Deploying, and Managing Azure AD Federation

Azure AD Federation is a powerful tool for managing identities and access to your applications. However, to ensure that it is used effectively and securely, it is essential to follow best practices when designing, deploying, and managing your federation solution. This chapter will provide six best practices for ensuring the security, performance, and compliance of your Azure AD Federation…
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Deep dive into best practices for identity governance in Azure AD 

Any organization’s identity governance is critical to ensuring security and compliance. Azure AD is becoming increasingly popular as businesses migrate to the cloud. This article explores how to implement identity governance best practices in Azure AD, ensure compliance, automate governance processes, monitor and audit identity governance activities, and educate users. Check out this…
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Top 5 best practices for Azure AD administration 

1. Use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) RBAC allows administrators to assign specific roles to users or groups, giving them only the permissions necessary to perform their job duties. Below are the list of best practices of using RABC in Azure AD. i. Define roles  The first step is to define the roles that will be used in the RBAC system. This can be done through the Azure portal…
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Azure AD Connect: What it is, how it works; best practices

Despite the proliferation of cloud architecture, organizations cannot entirely shift from their existing on-premise environments due to the presence of important legacy solutions that do not support the migration. Besides, certain sensitive data and applications can only be locally hosted to avoid security and compliance issues. In such cases that involve a hybrid infrastructure, it can be…
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