Identity - Microsoft Entra

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When the world was simpler, controlling digital access was relatively straightforward. It was just a matter of setting up the perimeter and letting only the right people in.

But this is no longer sustainable. Organizations simply can’t put up gates around everything, their digital estates are growing, changing, and becoming boundaryless. It’s virtually impossible to anticipate and address the unlimited number of access scenarios that can occur across an organization and its supply chain, especially when it includes third-party systems, platforms, applications, and devices outside the organization’s control.

Identity is not just about directories, and access is not just about the network. Security challenges have become much broader, so we need broader solutions. We need to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database.

Organizations need access decisions to be as granular as possible and to automatically adapt based on real-time assessment of risk. And they need this everywhere: on-premises, SaaS, Azure AD, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, apps, websites, devices, and whatever comes next.

Microsoft has developed a suite of services combined in one product line called Entra.   Microsoft Entra will verify all types of identities and secure, manage, and govern their access to any resource. The new Microsoft Entra product line mitigate the largest risk surrounding identity, which include:

• Protect access to any app or resource for any user.
• Secure and verify every identity across hybrid and multicloud environments.
• Discover and govern permissions in multicloud environments.
• Simplify the user experience with real-time intelligent access decisions.

Entra - Builds a trust fabric between people, microservices, and things with multicloud identity and access products.  This product line consists of: 

Azure Active Directory:

Used to safeguard your organization with the identity and access management solution that connects people to their apps, devices, and data.

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management:

Discovers, remediates, and monitors permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.

Microsoft Entra Verified ID:

Creates, issues, and verifies privacy-respecting decentralized identity credentials with an identity verification solution that helps you enable more secure interactions with anyone or anything.

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities:

Manages and helps secure identities for digital workloads, such as apps and services. Control their access to cloud resources with risk-based policies and enforcement of least-privileged access.

Microsoft Entra Identity Governance:

Simplifies operations, meets regulatory requirements, and consolidates multiple point solutions with a complete solution across on-premises and cloud-based user directories.