Azure AD Connect allows engineers to sync on-permises AD data to Azure AD. If you use express settings for the AD connect setup, by default it enables the password synchronization as well. This allows users to use same Active Directory password to authenticate in to cloud based workloads. This allow users to use single login details without maintaining different passwords. It simplifies the…
I am sure most of you aware what is single sign-on (SSO) in Active Directory infrastructure and how it works. When we extend identity infrastructures to Azure by using Azure AD, it also allows to extend Single Sign-On capabilities to authenticate in to cloud workloads. it can be done using on-premises ADFS farm. Password Hash Synchronization or Pass-through Authentication allow users to use same…
When organizations want to use same user name and passwords to log in to on-premises and cloud workloads (azure), there are two options. One is to sync user name and password hashes from on-premises active directory to azure AD. Other option is to deploy ADFS farm on-premises and use it to authenticate cloud based logins. But it needs additional planning and resources. On-premises AD uses hash…
Symantec released their latest Internet Security Threat Reportin early June. This report includes data about infrastructure threats for year 2016. It says, for year 2016, near 1.1 billion identities has been exposed. Also for last 8 years total identity breach is around 7.1 billion which is almost equal to total world population.
In Identity infrastructure breach, most of the time…
