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Identity and access management

This series explores best practices for identity and access management to help you manage and protect all your users and data.

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A breakthrough year for passwordless technology

Learn how Microsoft and its partners are advancing IAM through secure passwordless access.
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Microsoft Azure Active Directory again a “Leader” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management

Howdy folks, I’m proud to announce that for the fourth year in a row, Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) has been recognized as a “Leader” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management, Worldwide. Earlier this year, my boss, Joy Chik, CVP of Identity Engineering shared Microsoft’s guiding principles of our identity and access management…
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Announcing the Zero Trust Deployment Center

Organizations have been digitally transforming at warp speed in response to the way businesses operate and how people work. As a result, digital security teams have been under immense pressure to ensure their environments are resilient and secure. Many have turned to a Zero Trust security model to simplify the security challenges from this transformation and the shift to remote…
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Microsoft announces cloud innovation to simplify security, compliance, and identity

Simplifying security, compliance, and identity: Announcing Microsoft Defender, enhancements to Data Loss Prevention, and decentralized identity pilots
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Identity at Microsoft Ignite: Rising to the challenges of secure remote access and employee productivity

Keeping your users secure, wherever they are, has been our collective priority. Identity remains the heartbeat of all the services your users rely on.
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How do I implement a Zero Trust security model for my Microsoft remote workforce?

A Zero Trust strategy grounded in digital empathy will allow you to better protect your mobile workforce.
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New Forrester study shows customers who deploy Microsoft Azure AD benefit from 123% ROI.

Results from a Forrester TEI study show that customers who secure apps with Microsoft Azure Active Directory can improve user productivity, reduce costs, and gain IT efficiencies to generate a 123 percent ROI.
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Guiding principles of our identity strategy: staying ahead of evolving customer needs

A global pandemic made remote access essential and forced many of professionals to accelerate their digital transformation plans.
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Prevent and detect more identity-based attacks with Azure Active Directory

Security controls built into Azure Active Directory can reduce your risk of compromise.
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Protecting your remote workforce from application-based attacks like consent phishing

Learn how to protect your workforce from application-based attacks and the investments Microsoft is making to help foster a secure and trustworthy app ecosystem.
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The world is your authentication and identity oyster

For decades we have been taught that passwords are some level of security that can be implemented to protect websites. We need to dispel this unfortunate notion.
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4 identity partnerships to help drive better security

Microsoft identity engineering has expanded product partnerships to help customers transform digitally with Azure AD-integrated solutions.
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