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Jeroen Mulder
Jeroen Mulder
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Jeroen Mulder

Jeroen Mulder is a certified enterprise and security architect, and he works with Fujitsu (Netherlands) as a Principal Business Consultant. Earlier, he was a Sr. Lead Architect, focusing on cloud and cloud native technology, at Fujitsu, and was later promoted to become the Head of Applications and Multi-Cloud Services. Jeroen is interested in the cloud technology, architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools. He has previously authored “Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance”, “Enterprise DevOps for Architects”, and “Transforming Healthcare with DevOps4Care”.
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Designing access management across multi-cloud

In the previous section, we learned that we need to have federation with AD in our public cloud environment. The next question is: how do we do that? Azure uses Azure Active Directory (AAD). Just as a reminder: AAD is not the same as AD. AAD is an authentication service in Azure, using AD as the directory. The primary function of AAD is to synchronize identities to the cloud – Azure – using the existing AD. For the synchronization, it uses Azure AD Connect.

With AAD, enterprises will have a system that provides employees of these enterprises with a mechanism to log in and access resources on different platforms. That can be resources in Azure itself or resources such as applications hosted on systems in the corporate network.

But AAD also provides access to SaaS solutions such as Office365 and applications that can integrate with Azure. AAD makes sure that users only have to log in once using SSO. It's secured by MFA, meaning...

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Jeroen Mulder

Jeroen Mulder is a certified enterprise and security architect, and he works with Fujitsu (Netherlands) as a Principal Business Consultant. Earlier, he was a Sr. Lead Architect, focusing on cloud and cloud native technology, at Fujitsu, and was later promoted to become the Head of Applications and Multi-Cloud Services. Jeroen is interested in the cloud technology, architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools. He has previously authored “Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance”, “Enterprise DevOps for Architects”, and “Transforming Healthcare with DevOps4Care”.
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