Chapter 8: Azure Identity Services

In Chapter 7, Azure Security, you learned skills that covered the security aspects of Azure, including security concepts, the security services themselves that you can enable, and security posture management and security operations tooling.

This chapter will outline the identity services in Azure, including Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Active Directory (AD), hybrid identity authentication, authorization, Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Conditional Access.

This chapter aims to provide coverage of the AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals Skills Measured section: describe identity, governance, privacy, and compliance features.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to do the following:

• Define Azure AD.
• Describe the functionality and usage of Azure AD.
• Explain the difference between authentication and authorization.
• Describe the functionality and usage of Conditional Access, MFA, and...