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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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May 31, 2022 • 5 min read

Streamlining employee onboarding: Microsoft’s response to the Great Reshuffle

Verifiable credentials may help improve employee experience, an important factor HR and IT business leaders must pay attention to as expectations evolve.

May 31, 2022 • 7 min read

Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra

Identity is not just about directories, and access is not just about the network. Security challenges have become much broader, so we need broader solutions. We need to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database.

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May 5, 2022 • 5 min read

This World Password Day consider ditching passwords altogether

Learn how Microsoft is helping to make your accounts more secure—without a password.

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March 23, 2022 • 7 min read

How a leading Microsoft engineer extends culture to service resiliency

Nadim Abdo, Corporate Vice President of Identity and Network Access Engineering, talks with principal software engineering manager, Huiwen Ru, on her groundbreaking work to make cloud services resilient.

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March 10, 2022 • 5 min read

Why decentralization is the future of digital identities

Our identity is increasingly becoming digitized –more of our hard copy credentials are converting into digital formats. We use these digital credentials to work, learn, play, socialize, shop, and consume services online and offline every day.

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November 16, 2021 • 8 min read

The importance of identity and Microsoft Azure Active Directory resilience

Nadim Abdo, Vice President of Identity and Network Access Engineering, talks with Oren Melzer, Principal Group Engineering Manager, on his groundbreaking work on making cloud services resilient.

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October 26, 2021 • 11 min read

Protect your business from password sprays with Microsoft DART recommendations

This blog discusses DART’s investigation techniques and approach to responding to password spray attacks while outlining recommendations for protecting against them.

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October 6, 2021 • 4 min read

Microsoft’s 5 guiding principles for decentralized identities

Microsoft is excited about the opportunity to create a decentralized identity system that increases customer trust and adoption by minimizing data processing and providing the user much greater control of the specific identity data they share and how it will be used.

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September 21, 2021 • 3 min read

3 trends shaping identity as the center of modern security

In the face of increasingly advanced threats, complex multi-cloud environments, and an evolving trust fabric, identity is emerging as a critical player to deliver the next generation of security, governance, and privacy services.

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September 15, 2021 • 4 min read

The passwordless future is here for your Microsoft account

Beginning today, you can break free from your password and go passwordless with your Microsoft account.

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July 21, 2021 • 1 min read

Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management

Today on the Official Microsoft Blog, Microsoft announced the acquisition of CloudKnox Security, a leader in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM). CloudKnox offers complete visibility into privileged access.

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May 26, 2021 • 8 min read

How user experience is shaping verifiable credentials and identity

Since 2017, Microsoft has been working with the identity community on two groundbreaking technologies designed from the ground up to make digital privacy convenient and practical: decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials. We believe verifiable credentials will revolutionize the way we exchange personal information, shifting ownership and control of identity and personal data back to individuals.