What Is Azure Active Directory?
Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) is part of the suite of products in Microsoft Office 365. It’s a cloud solution that combines core directory services such as application access management and advanced identity protection. For both on-premises and cloud applications, it delivers single sign-on (SSO) access that increases user productivity.
AD enhances user synchronization, ensuring they’re up to date. This increased efficiency ensures your entire technology ecosystem generates ROI.
Key Features of Azure AD
Azure Active Directory is a comprehensive cloud solution. Beyond its capabilities, it also has unique features that make it stand out. These include:
Cloud-Ready
Users have access to a personalized web-based access panel. This panel allows users to launch cloud applications whenever and wherever they are. In addition, users still have full control over what they can access.
User-Oriented
One of the features that truly sets AD apart is its user-centric design. It streamlines authentication and password processes. Moreover, you can communicate with users outside the company without compromising control of sensitive data and applications. With an array of self-service options, various features can be used to deliver a better and more consistent user experience.
Secure
Another key focus area of Azure Active Directory is security. You can set up alerts, monitor, detect, and mitigate threats. In addition, with its machine learning capabilities, you will have the information and the ability to identify patterns to respond to threats quicker and more precisely.
Azure Active Directory Support
At Logical Net, we offer Azure Active Directory consulting to ensure you get the most from it.
Here are some of the benefits of AD support.
Integrated Solutions
Your Azure Active Directory consultant will help you set up to ensure seamless access to your applications. This will be done by a single sign-on, which you can use on any platform from anywhere.
Enterprise-Class Protection
Your organization’s data must remain safe as they work on projects and share information. Our Azure Active Directory consulting services will provide enterprise-level protection, which includes setting up strong conditional access and authentication policies to safeguard user credentials.
We’ll also set up multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access. All these will be capped off with robust threat monitoring and mitigation.
Secure Remote Access
The modern workplace is highly dynamic and values flexibility. Enterprise-level security featuring multi-factor authentication allows users to enjoy secure remote access to on-premises and cloud applications.
Simplified Management
With Azure Active Directory, you get a combination of key features and services. These include:
- Core directory services
- Identity governance
- Application access management
With this powerful blend, IT teams can sync users, devices, and groups much more easily and manageably.
Customized User Journeys
Each user and customer you interact with is unique. As such, they want solutions that reflect this. Azure Active Directory support allows you to use simple social identity authentication and identity management.
Such capabilities allow you to reduce sign-in friction and customize user journeys, enabling you to engage with each user more meaningfully.
Offload IT Micro-Tasks
Passwords are a key security feature in any system and network. However, one of the biggest tasks that IT teams face is creating and changing users’ passwords. It’s a minute task that takes up much of their time, which would otherwise be spent on other key tasks.
With Azure Active Directory, you’ll have self-service password reset capabilities. Users can do so independently when they want to change their password.