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Published inOct 2021
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Jon Lehtinen
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Jon Lehtinen

Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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Using Managed AD and trusts

We will bring our non-administrative users into AWS using a Managed AD instance in AWS Directory Services. Strictly speaking, we don't even need to import our user's accounts into the Managed AD environment in order to accomplish our goal. We can arrange for the Managed AD instance to perform lookups and binds against our on-premises AD forest using a trust. A trust allows two or more AD domains to authenticate against resources that are available in the other:

Figure 11.9 – A user signing in to an app through a domain trust

Consider the example in Figure 11.9. An AWS-hosted application that requires either AD or LDAP for user authentication or authorization is configured to look to an AWS Managed AD instance for user information. The Managed AD and the on-premises AD have a two-way trust:

  1. The user signs in to the application.
  2. The application looks to the Managed AD to verify the user's credentials...
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Jon Lehtinen has 16 years of enterprise identity and access management experience and specializes in both the strategy and execution of IAM transformation in global-scale organizations such as Thomson Reuters, General Electric, and Apollo Education Group. In addition to his work in the enterprise space, he has held positions on Ping Identity's Customer Advisory Board and as an advisor to identity verification start-up EvidentID. He currently owns the workforce and customer identity implementations at Okta. Jon is dedicated to the growth and maturity of IAM as a profession and serves on the Board of Directors for IDPro org. He is also a member of the Kantara Initiative, ISC2, OpenID Foundation, and Women in Identity. Jon has presented his work at several conferences, including RSA, Identiverse, and KuppingerCole's European Identity and Cloud Conference. Currently, he owns Okta's workforce and customer IAM implementations as their Director of Okta on Okta.
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