Security and granular access control to different SaaS and LOB applications are critical factors in the cloud. While the cloud transformation seems to be more and more accelerated, cloud vendors must keep the pace up to meet business needs for organizations around the world. In this talk we will briefly look over Azure AD multi-factor authentication and some new and very interesting capabilities meant to make the transition to a SaaS app model seamless and easy.

3. 1 trillion
Azure AD
authentications
since the release of
the service
>80k
third-party
applications used
with Azure AD
each month
>1.3
billion
authentications every
day on Azure AD
More than
600 M
user accounts on
Azure AD
Azure AD
Directories
>9 M
86%
of Fortune 500
companies use
Microsoft Cloud
(Azure, O365, CRM
Online, and PowerBI)
Every Office 365 and Microsoft Azure customer uses Azure Active Directory
Microsoft’s “Identity Management as a Service (IDaaS)”
for organizations.
Millions of independent identity systems controlled by
enterprise and government “tenants.”
Information is owned and used by the controlling
organization—not by Microsoft.
Born-as-a-cloud directory for Office 365. Extended to
manage across many clouds.
Evolved to manage an organization’s relationships with
its customers/citizens and partners (B2C and B2B).

4. CLOUD-POWERED PROTECTION
A standalone Azure identity and access
management service, also included in
Azure Active Directory Premium
Prevents unauthorized access to both
on-premises and cloud applications by
providing an additional level of
authentication
Trusted by thousands of enterprises
to authenticate employee, customer,
and partner access

5. CLOUD-POWERED PROTECTION
Text
messages
Phone
calls
Mobile
apps

8. here

9. #AzureAD Conditional Access: Per app MFA and Network Location based
policies are GA!
Azure Active Directory conditional access
Conditional access support for applications