Microsoft is moving its Azure AD service to the “Entra” portfolio of cybersecurity tools and renaming it Entra ID.
In June of last year, Microsoft announced that it would consolidate access control, identity security and authorization management services under a single brand: Microsoft Entra. A new portfolio of solutions to complement the “Microsoft Defender” threat solutions portfolio and the “Microsoft Priva” compliance and privacy risk management solution portfolio.
Already at the time, Microsoft presented “Azure Active Directory” as a component of the “Entra” range, although it did not bear the brand name.
As a reminder, Azure AD is a cloud identity and access management service in the Cloud (IDaaS) which notably controls all authentications to Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Dynamics 365 and Azure. Although using different protocols and not really implementing the same functionalities, Azure AD is often perceived as the Cloud derivation of the ancestral Windows Active Directory, the famous company directory integrated into Windows Server since version 2000. But while Active Directory is now often seen as the Achilles’ heel of Windows infrastructures, Azure AD is now adopted as an essential brick for implementing the Zero Trust approach in a hybrid cloud world.
Entra ID, the new name for Azure AD
« To simplify our product naming and unify our product family, we are changing the name from Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID writes Joy Chik, VP Microsoft, in a blog postbefore reassuring the administrators about the impacts of this renaming: “ Capabilities and licensing plans, login URLs, and APIs remain unchanged, and all existing deployments, configurations, and integrations will continue to work as before. Starting today, you’ll see notifications in the admin portal, on our websites, in documentation, and other places where you can interact with Azure AD. We will complete the Azure AD renaming to Microsoft Entra ID by the end of 2023. No action on your part is required ».
A renaming which is both logical (it was time for Microsoft’s IDaaS solution to stand out from its On Prem “Active Directory” history) but which should also make it possible to popularize the “Entra” brand even more, as Azure AD is a brick that is essential today for many companies.
In addition, the services associated with Azure AD will also change names like Azure AD External Identities which becomes Entra External ID (an extension to manage the identity of users outside the company such as partners, customers, patients, guests, suppliers or users) and Azure AD Identity Protection (a solution against account compromise) become Entra ID Protection.
Two new products and an HSE offer
The Entra range therefore includes the original modules (Enter ID – ex Azure AD with its External Identities and Identity Protection extensions, Entra Permissions Management, Entra Verified ID) and two modules launched from: Enter ID Governance et Entra Workload ID.
Along with the Azure AD renaming announcement, Microsoft took the opportunity to launch two new cybersecurity products that complete the Entra portfolio:
* Entra Internet Access is a secure web gateway that extends conditional access policies by adding network conditions to protect users from malicious internet traffic and improves access visibility in Microsoft 365 environments while providing employees with faster and more efficient access. more fluid to the applications of the collaborative suite.
* Entra Private Access is a new service for securing access to business applications that avoids having to use VPNs. ” Now any user, anywhere can quickly and easily connect securely to private applications – whether they are hosted in hybrid and multicloud environments, in private networks or in data centers – from any device and any network explains the editor.
Two complementary offers as explained by Microsoft: “Together, Internet Access and Private Access, combined with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, our CASB solution focused on SaaS security, constitute la solution Security Service Edge (SSE) de Microsoft “. An SSE platform that Microsoft wants to open in particular to allow its partners who may be competitors on certain functionalities to integrate into it.
By combining the Entra ID solutions you obtain the MS HSE solution
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2023-07-12 23:26:51
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