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Course 29 - AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies | Episode 1: Essential Identity Management and Security Protection
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In this lesson, you’ll learn about:
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- Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) fundamentals, including its role as a centralized identity and access management platform for users, groups, and applications.
- Architecture and licensing tiers, understanding the differences between:
- Free
- Basic
- Premium P1
- Premium P2 (advanced security capabilities)
- Identity management in Azure AD:
- Managing users (internal, Microsoft accounts, and guest users)
- Managing groups (Security and Microsoft 365 groups)
- Differentiating between:
- Azure AD roles (identity-level permissions)
- Azure RBAC roles (resource-level permissions)
- Application integration and authentication model:
- Difference between:
- Application objects (global app definition)
- Service principals (instance within a tenant with assigned permissions)
- Registering applications, generating client secrets, and assigning API permissions
- Difference between:
- Advanced security features (Premium P2):
- Conditional Access policies to control login conditions
- Identity Protection for detecting risky sign-ins
- Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time admin access
- Baseline security protections, including:
- Enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for administrators
- Blocking legacy authentication protocols
- Applying predefined security policies to reduce attack surface
- Practical administration tools and workflows:
- Using Microsoft Authenticator for MFA enrollment
- Managing identities and applications via the Azure CLI
- Performing actions as a service principal for automation and scripting
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