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Published inDec 2022
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ISBN-139781801810845
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Giuseppe Di Federico
Giuseppe Di Federico
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Giuseppe Di Federico

Giuseppe Di Federico started working for Microsoft in 2011, with previous experience working for IBM and Accenture in software development. He became an architect for cloud and hybrid solutions, serving customers in more than 10 countries across EMEA. He had the opportunity to lead multicultural teams, visit many multinational customers, and learn about different cultures, mindsets, and assets, which enabled him to also appreciate how organizations' structures impact their results. During his experience, he has been able to appreciate many identity patterns designed to last, to be reliable and secure. In June 2022, he accepted the challenge to join a new leading-edge team for the greatest service company in Italy.
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Fabrizio Barcaroli
Fabrizio Barcaroli
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Fabrizio Barcaroli

Fabrizio Barcaroli (born in 1987) started his career as a consultant in Italy after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in 2012. In 2013, Fabrizio joined Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Consulting Services unit, where he developed his technical skills and helped customers achieve their business goals through the usage of Microsoft technologies. With the rise of the cloud era, Fabrizio specialized in cloud and identity solutions, and in 2020, he became a cloud solution architect, a technical advisor that helps close the gap between business needs and Microsoft technologies for big enterprises operating in the manufacturing, finance, and retail markets in Italy and across the globe.
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Additional features

On top of all the authentication capabilities that AAD provides as an implementation of the OAuth 2.0/OIDC specifications, AAD has built a set of management and security features that ease the tasks of both governing identities and their life cycles and securing access to the assets protected by AAD, such as applications and the data behind them. In this section, we will give you an overview of these features. Some of them require additional licensing (AAD Premium 1 and 2) in order to be used.

Conditional Access

Conditional Access is a security feature that can decide to grant or block a user from accessing AAD-federated applications according to specific conditions that are evaluated during a user’s authentication attempt.

The Conditional Access feature consists of creating policies where an administrator can define the conditions that trigger the policy and the actions that AAD must perform when those conditions are satisfied.

A Conditional...

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Authors (2)

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Giuseppe Di Federico

Giuseppe Di Federico started working for Microsoft in 2011, with previous experience working for IBM and Accenture in software development. He became an architect for cloud and hybrid solutions, serving customers in more than 10 countries across EMEA. He had the opportunity to lead multicultural teams, visit many multinational customers, and learn about different cultures, mindsets, and assets, which enabled him to also appreciate how organizations' structures impact their results. During his experience, he has been able to appreciate many identity patterns designed to last, to be reliable and secure. In June 2022, he accepted the challenge to join a new leading-edge team for the greatest service company in Italy.
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Fabrizio Barcaroli

Fabrizio Barcaroli (born in 1987) started his career as a consultant in Italy after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in 2012. In 2013, Fabrizio joined Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Consulting Services unit, where he developed his technical skills and helped customers achieve their business goals through the usage of Microsoft technologies. With the rise of the cloud era, Fabrizio specialized in cloud and identity solutions, and in 2020, he became a cloud solution architect, a technical advisor that helps close the gap between business needs and Microsoft technologies for big enterprises operating in the manufacturing, finance, and retail markets in Italy and across the globe.
Read more about Fabrizio Barcaroli