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What is Azure Active Directory B2C?

December 7, 2022
Azure Active Directory (AD) B2C is a customer identity access management (CIAM) solution capable of providing services that scales to hundreds of millions of customer identities and is highly available globally. It is intended to enhance a regular Azure Active Directory instance to enable external user registration through a local account (email) or by delegating to a variety of social accounts…
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Azure security flaw puts Zero-Trust in the spotlight

September 29, 2021
In the wake of the recent Microsoft Azure vulnerability, ChaosDB, security experts are stressing that organizations, especially those that rely on public cloud infrastructure can no longer delay adopting the zero-trust model. Cloud security firm Wiz, which first discovered the vulnerability in Microsoft Azure’s managed database service, Cosmos DB said that the vulnerability gave threat…
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AD Domain ServicesArchitecture & Design

What is Azure Active Directory?

August 12, 2021
Azure Active Directory: Introduction Azure Active Directory is a multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service provided by Microsoft. It offers identity and access capabilities for applications running in both Microsoft Azure and in an on-premises environment. It is the foundation for Office 365 and other SaaS applications; users are allowed to sign in and access the…
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Microsoft announces Azure Best Practices and Launches Conditional Access Enhancements

April 9, 2021
Joy Chik, corporate vice president for Microsoft Identity, recently laid out a general overview of Azure AD security best practice. This announcement comes in the light of improvements that were recently announced to Azure Active Directory including conditional access policy management enhancements and synchronization service additions. Microsoft has suggested that companies using Azure AD…
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Microsoft announces advancements in Azure Front Door and Azure Firewall

April 9, 2021
Microsoft announced that two of its security services, Azure Front Door and Azure Firewall have been updated with improvements. Azure Front Door now comes with two new products in the preview stage, Standard and premium, while Azure Firewall has a Premium option in the preview stage as well. The company conducted a web presentation titled “Modernize Your Network Security Strategy” on Feb…
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Identity Protection & RiskMicrosoft Entra ID

Microsoft releases Azure AD My Apps Collections and Risk Detections

April 9, 2021
Microsoft recently released a couple of new additional features to its Azure AD system. The new features, namely My Apps Collections and Risk Detections will let end users create their own set of apps in the Azure AD “My Apps” portal. The latter feature will help administrators spot sign-in anomalies. However, Microsoft also announced that some Azure AD features will also be discontinued. A…
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Microsoft Azure AD Outage caused by Cross-Cloud Migration Operation

April 9, 2021
Microsoft recently apologized for an Azure Active Directory issue that disrupted access to Office 365 applications and the Azure Admin Portal for two hours or more for some users. Microsoft conducted a root cause analysis in an attempt to offer an explanation on what caused the outage. In the root cause analysis notice, Microsoft said that a cross-cloud migration operation that was intended to…
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Hackers responsible for the SolarWinds hack also have their hands on Azure and Exchange source code

March 3, 2021
In an update released this Thursday, Microsoft disclosed that the hackers responsible for the SolarWinds attack have also stolen some source code related to Azure, Exchange, and Intune components. However, the tech giant added that their investigation did not point to any evidence of abuse targeted at their internal systems and its customers. Microsoft took notice of this compromise back on…
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Microsoft announced improvements in Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policy and Sync

March 3, 2021
Microsoft has recently announced improvements to Azure Active Directory conditional access policy and sync services. The company also outlined security best practices for organizations across the world using on-premises Active Directory and Azure AD for identity and access management. Microsoft is advocating organizations to adopt zero trust for network traffic with Active Directory along with…
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