Identity and Access Management
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Connect your workforce to their apps
Enable seamless access to all your apps—in the cloud or on-premises—with single sign-on to ensure your workforce stays productive and the work stays secure.
Enable strong authentication
Reduce risk of security breaches with strong authentication. Turn on one of the many Multi-Factor Authentication options to protect your users from 99.9 percent of identity attacks.
Secure adaptive access
Protect access to resources and data using strong authentication and risk-based adaptive access policies without compromising user experience.
Monitor and audit access
Manage your identities efficiently and securely by making sure the right people have the right access to the right resources. Protect, monitor, and audit access to critical assets while helping ensure employee productivity.
Identity and Access Management solutions
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is the most trusted Identity and Access Management solution.
Microsoft named overall leader in access management
Customer stories
Centrica
“By centralizing and streamlining, we can be more confident that the data is in one place, our regulatory compliance can be validated, and everything is properly managed. The solution is easy, quick, and agile.”
Mattress Firm
“Once we deployed Azure AD and set up automated provisioning, the onboarding process sped up significantly… We’ve realized a huge costs savings from this transition—about $500,000 per year in hard dollars, but tons of soft costs saved!”
LA Clippers
See how this iconic basketball team protected their brand from unauthorized people and gained control over unsanctioned cloud apps with Azure AD and Cloud App Security.
More on Identity and Access Management
Crash course in Azure AD e-book
Get an overview of Azure AD, how it works, and the benefits of one unified, secure identity system.
Transform your hybrid identity infrastructure
Accelerate identity modernization at your own pace. A hybrid approach helps retain and expand IT systems while taking advantage of the control, visibility, and security of the cloud.
Strengthen your response to cyberattacks
Get insights and best practices, and learn what happens when the Microsoft Incident Response Team engages. View Incident Response: Getting the Upper Hand in the Cybercrime Fight webinar.
Identity and access management processes
Learn 10 tips for enabling Zero Trust security.
Additional resources
Azure AD features and videos
Securing apps with Azure AD
Azure AD roadmap
An identity-driven security approach
Your universal platform to manage and secure identities
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