The digital world is not only highly complex but has also become potentially insecure. Every day, every user is faced with countless decisions regarding whether an online resource, website content or email sender can really be trusted. Because, to put it simply, security breaches, data leaks and identity theft can all too often be traced back to just one careless moment: A user clicks on a malicious link in a phishing e-mail and thereby opens the floodgates to hackers.
Fact is: Protected access to resources is of vital importance. And this requires bulletproof protection of user accounts – the ‘identities’. If we can succeed in putting a stop to the phenomenon of stolen or compromised login information, the risk of successful cyber attacks will be significantly reduced.
Introducing Microsoft Entra for reliable identity and access management
We recommend Microsoft Entra as a platform for a modern IAM solution. Microsoft Entra is the name of a product family from Microsoft that offers comprehensive solutions for identity and access management (IAM).
Expert advice and product know-how: use the modernisation approach of SITS to design a future-oriented IAM solution that gives you that crucial edge in terms of security in a networked world!
With Microsoft Entra, companies can ensure and verify access to applications and digital resources for all user accounts. This includes both internal users, i.e. employees, and external users, such as customers and business partners as ‘guests’, on their network.
But Entra goes one step further: it also includes endpoints and networks to enable the design of holistic access policies.
‘Who is allowed to access what, when and for how long, using which device?’ – This is the key question that companies should ask themselves. What does this mean in detail?
• Who: internal/external user
• Which device: only with the correct compliance status
• What: digital resources in your network, such as applications, files and data
• When and for how long: just-in-time access, no ‘standing access’
Entra products also ensure that only authorised users can access sensitive data. And that’s the next important step: authentication. Only after a user’s identity has been correctly authenticated is authorisation to access a resource granted.
An overview of the components for secure access ‘from everyone to everything’
All solutions in the Entra family are designed to protect and simplify access to your internal applications, systems and business data. The individual components are explained below:
Zero Trust Access Controls
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory or Azure AD): Implement the Zero Trust principle ‘Trust no one – verify everything!’ with Entra ID as your IAM solution and directory service – without compromising user productivity. Enable your users to seamlessly connect to applications, devices and data while securing your resources and data with strong authentication and adaptive risk-based access policies.
Secure access for your employees
Microsoft Entra Private Access: Connect remote users to your apps quickly and securely from any device and network – on-premises, in clouds and everywhere in between.
Microsoft Entra Internet Access: Provide your hybrid workforce with secure, fast and identity-centric access to web, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and Microsoft 365 applications.
Microsoft Entra ID Governance: Automate the lifecycle of user identities and reduce the manual workload for the IT team. You also benefit from AI-based insights into identities and app permissions. Because Entra ID Governance is delivered in the cloud, it can scale to complex cloud and hybrid environments, unlike traditional on-premises, point solution identity governance solutions. It supports cloud and on-premises applications from Microsoft and third-party providers.
Microsoft Entra ID Protection: Simplify the identification of compromised identities and take immediate action to minimise the potential risk associated with compromised apps or services.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID: Use open standards for authentication and credential issuance.
Secure Access for your customers and partners
Microsoft Entra External ID: Extend your IAM solution to guest users such as customers, business partners and suppliers, so that they can access your applications via a comfortable registration and login process. Entra External ID provides the same reliable authentication, conditional access and other identity tools that you use for your internal employees.
Secure Access to Every Cloud
Microsoft Entra Permissions Management: Detect, troubleshoot, and track permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure with this cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.
Microsoft Entra Workload ID: Enable apps and services to access cloud resources securely.
THE SITS OFFER FOR IAM modernisation based on Microsoft Entra
Outdated IAM systems can pose a major risk to your business. That’s why SITS is helping you switch to a modern, scalable IAM solution that secures both on-premises and cloud applications – based on zero-trust principles.
Three steps to your modern IAM! At SITS, we believe in continuous improvement. Together, we evaluate your current IAM, define a vision and support you in implementing a modern, cloud-based IAM with Microsoft Entra.
Conclusion:
Microsoft Entra offers powerful security features for today’s hybrid and cloud-based world. Our experts will work with you to design a seamless solution that both simplifies identity and access management and protects your users, devices and data from the threats of the digital age.
Intelligent access policies, effective access management and the verification of identities are essential components that you can control and monitor centrally. The Microsoft Entra product family supports this strategic approach with multi-dimensional and multi-layered security functions – and SITS is your partner for expert implementation.
Our experts ensure the smooth transformation of your outdated IAM systems into an advanced identity and access management solution that covers your users, devices, apps and data in both hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. We deliver end-to-end modernisation strategies and comprehensive managed services for optimal security, efficiency and compliance.
If you want to get started with modern IAM, get in touch with us now!
