Microsoft Entra Rapid Start Deliverables
Over the course of this engagement, we will achieve:
- 1x Envision workshop to understand business drivers and bound project scope
- 1x Solution design workshop to set Entra product set in business context
- Off-site working to deliver a PoC, proving-out key Entra capabilities (optional)
- High-level design, so you can plan and build-out Entra with confidence
Over the engagement the following Entra products are in scope:
1. Microsoft Azure AAD, B2B. B2C:
AAD
Identity management inside your enterprise:
- SSO for your enterprise apps, making it faster and simpler to sign in to your enterprise apps compared with managing multiple usernames and passwords
- Conditional access and MFA (multifactor authentication), keeping your apps better secured against bad actors
- Achieve a single, unified view of your users and identities (people and systems), making it simpler and more time-efficient to keep your business secure
- Privileged Identity Management providing just in time access to Azure AD and Azure resources.
B2B
Identity management for your partners and suppliers:
*Collaborate with partners and suppliers, while maintaining control over your applications, services and data
B2C
Identity management for externally-facing apps:
- Custom sign-up, sign-in and profile management, so you can appropriately secure your externally-facing applications
- Pixel-perfect brand and style, so your customers enjoy an identity experience that’s consistently familiar and high-quality, building trust
- Federate to external identity providers, including social and Gov / NHS / LRG, so your customers can use the identity most convenient for them
- Integrate with enterprise apps and services for additional identity attributes for authorisation
2. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management:
Ensure identities are properly provisioned and managed across your multi-cloud estate
- Ensure users have the right level of identity at the right time – elevate when required and adopt least-privilege by default, reducing risk of inadvertent or malicious app or service damage
- Better secure access to apps and services with a coherent identity policy and management strategy across your IT estate, reducing expensive administrative overhead
3. Microsoft Entra Verified Id (Decentralized Identity):
Innovate identity management / prove-out decentralized identity use-cases:
- More rapidly and easily issue and verify trusted credentials, simplifying and speeding up user on-boarding and at a much lower cost
- Eliminate passwords, reducing attack surface and delivering a more secure and simple authentication experience
4. Workload Identity
Identity lifecycle management for non-human entities (apps, services, containers, VMs):
*Better secure access to apps and services with a coherent workload identity policy and management strategy, minimising requirement for developer maintenance / overhead
5. Identity Governance:
Identity management inside your enterprise:
- Automate access to apps and services, minimising requirement for manual approvals
- Establish a strategy and approach to ensure users have the right level of access for the right time
- Achieve a single, unified view of your users and identities (people and systems), making it simpler and more time-efficient to keep your business secure