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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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User and group-based application access management


For authorization, Azure Active Directory delivers many methods. As we already discussed in Chapter 2Planing and Designing Cloud Identities groups are a preferred way of providing users with the correct permissions and access to their applications. It's good practice that users work with the Access Control Panel UI and access their applications, change the password, and add verification options. With this option, you can also allow the user to build his own preferred workplace. For example he can add his own applications and leave the passwords secure in Azure Active Directory, benefitting from SSO.

Generally, Azure Active Directory provides three main concepts for authorization:

  • Direct: The user will be directly authorized

  • Group-based: Rule based or Delegated

  • Role-based: The developer can publish his own application roles

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The following section describes the different methods for these...

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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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