Identity and Access Management News and Insights

Published January 8, 2020

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Government data protection—earning and retaining the public’s trust with Microsoft 365

Earning and retaining the public’s trust requires a modern approach to protecting data. Governments can adopt a Zero Trust approach to cybersecurity with the help of Microsoft 365.

Published July 10, 2019

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New Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work

Announcing the public preview of FIDO2 security keys support for passwordless sign-in to Azure AD.

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Published November 20, 2018

4 min read

Secure password-less sign-in for your Microsoft account using a security key or Windows Hello

We just turned on the ability to securely sign in with your Microsoft account using a standards-based FIDO2 compatible device—no username or password required!

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Published October 16, 2018

2 min read

Microsoft named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Access Management

Microsoft was recognized as a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Access Management, Worldwide—which is a strong validation that that our customers value the innovations we added to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) this year.

Published June 25, 2018

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Vision + Execution: Microsoft named a leader again in Gartner MQ for Access Management

For the second year in a row, Gartner has positioned Microsoft in the Leaders Quadrant in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Access Management.

Published March 5, 2018

9 min read

Azure AD and ADFS best practices: Defending against password spray attacks

As long as we’ve had passwords, people have tried to guess them. In this blog, we’re going to talk about a common attack which has become much more frequent recently and some best practices for defending against it.

Published February 12, 2018

6 min read

Decentralized digital identities and blockchain: The future as we see it

Over the last 12 months we’ve invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security, and control.

Published January 31, 2018

1 min read

Public preview: “What If” tool for Azure AD conditional access policies

Azure AD Conditional Access (CA) has really taken off. Organizations around the world are using it to ensure secure, compliant access to applications.

Published November 13, 2017

4 min read

How organizations are connecting their on-premises identities to Azure AD

If you follow the blog, you know that we support a wide array of options for connecting an on-premises directory or IAM solution to Azure AD. In fact no one in the industry gives customers as many options as we do.

Published September 11, 2017

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Azure AD B2B collaboration in Microsoft Teams

Today I am excited to let you know that we’ve just enabled Guest Access in Microsoft Teams, built on the B2B collaboration features of Azure AD!

Published June 12, 2017

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Azure AD makes the Leaders quadrant in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Access Management!

Gartner released their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Access Management, which shows Microsoft placed in the Leaders quadrant for our completeness of vision and ability to execute.

Tag: Identity and Access Management

Government data protection—earning and retaining the public’s trust with Microsoft 365

New Azure Active Directory capabilities help you eliminate passwords at work

Secure password-less sign-in for your Microsoft account using a security key or Windows Hello

Microsoft named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Access Management

Vision + Execution: Microsoft named a leader again in Gartner MQ for Access Management

Azure AD and ADFS best practices: Defending against password spray attacks

Decentralized digital identities and blockchain: The future as we see it

Public preview: “What If” tool for Azure AD conditional access policies

How organizations are connecting their on-premises identities to Azure AD

Azure AD B2B collaboration in Microsoft Teams

Azure AD makes the Leaders quadrant in Gartner’s 2017 Magic Quadrant for Access Management!

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