Let's Explore What is Microsoft Entra?

 

Microsoft Entra is new product family that encompasses all of Microsoft’s identity and access capabilities. The Entra family includes Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), as well as two new product categories: Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) and decentralized identity. The products in the Entra family will help provide secure access to everything for everyone, by providing identity and access management, cloud infrastructure entitlement management, and identity verification.

Manage permissions of any identity, across any cloud, with one unified platform

Unified Identity & Security features like Azure Active Directory which you are already using for many years, added new features like "Permissions Management", "Verify ID".

Oversee all your organization’s identities in one place

 

As the growth of cloud continues, more workloads are moving to the cloud and new enterprise software solutions are being deployed natively in the cloud. This has resulted in massive growth in identities for workloads and an explosion of access permissions associated with these identities to sensitive data and resources.

New streamlined onboarding and monitoring capabilities

As part of GA release, Microsoft introducing a new, automated approach to onboarding your AWS, Azure, and GCP environments into Permissions Management. With a simplified workflow, you can efficiently collect permissions data across clouds at scale with just a few clicks.

Discover the Microsoft Entra product family

Build a trust fabric between people, microservices, and things with multicloud identity and access products.

Azure Active Directory

Safeguard your organization with the identity and access management solution that connects people to their apps, devices, and data.

Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Discover, remediate, and monitor permission risks across your multicloud infrastructure with a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution.

Microsoft Entra Verified ID

Create, issue, and verify privacy-respecting decentralized identity credentials with an identity verification solution that helps you enable more secure interactions with anyone or anything.

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities

Manage and help secure identities for digital workloads, such as apps and services. Control their access to cloud resources with risk-based policies and enforcement of least-privileged access.

Microsoft Entra Identity Governance

Simplify operations, meet regulatory requirements, and consolidate multiple point solutions with a complete solution across on-premises and cloud-based user directories.

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