Summary

Identity is the new perimeter, and so it's essential to properly protect user and administrator accounts in the cloud. In this chapter, you have learned why passwords are not enough to protect your accounts and how to protect them with MFA, Azure AD Identity Protection, and passwordless authentication. You can reduce your privileged accounts' attack surface as of now, to integrate Azure AD into your existing environments.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to protect network infrastructure resources on Azure and which platform services you need in order to achieve a better security posture.