The Role of Microsoft Entra ID in Microsoft 365 Security
As organizations embrace cloud-based productivity solutions, the need for robust identity and access management (IAM) becomes increasingly important. Microsoft 365, a comprehensive suite of productivity tools, leverages Microsoft Entra ID to provide a secure and efficient IAM framework. Microsoft Entra ID plays a vital role in managing user identities, enforcing access controls, and ensuring the integrity of data within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud-based IAM service; or, in short, IAM establishes the basis for the identification of Microsoft’s public cloud services. Microsoft Entra ID encompasses a wide range of objects and related services, and it is a rather complex and wide topic; it deserves a whole book for itself alone. In this chapter, we will focus on the Microsoft Entra ID functionalities and features that are more tightly connected to, or more directly connected...
