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Workload Protection with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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‘ Microsoft Defender for Cloud’ (previously known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender) is a tool that strengthen your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection (CWP) . It protects your workload running in Azure, hybrid, or any other cloud platforms. In this blogpost, we will mainly focus on Cloud Workload Protection (CWP), which are typically agent-based workload-centric security protection solutions along with below topics. 1.                           Enable ‘ Microsoft Defender for Cloud ’ on your subscriptions 2.                           Enable Enhanced security features 3.                           Workload Protection a.       Dashboard coverage b. ...
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Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)

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What is ADFS? In simpler words, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) is a  Single Sign-On  (SSO) solution. ADFS provides users with authenticated access to applications that are not capable of using Integrated Windows Authentication through Active Directory (AD). To provide flexibility, ADFS gives organizations the ability to control their employees’ accounts while simplifying the user experience: employees only need to remember a single set of credentials to access multiple applications through  SSO . How does ADFS work? ADFS manages authentication through a proxy service hosted between AD and the target application. It uses a Federated Trust, linking ADFS and the target application to grant access to users. This enables users to log onto the federated application through SSO without needing to authenticate their identity on application directly. The authentication process follows below steps: The user navigates to a URL provided by the ADFS ser...
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