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Luis Leon Plata: Hello, everyone. I’m Luis Leon. I’m a Program
Manager in the Azure AD Engineering team.
Jairo Cadena: I’m Jairo Cadena, also a PM on the same team.
Today, we’re going to talk on how you can migrate your
apps to Azure AD. First, we’re going to see the benefits of
bringing your apps to Azure AD, how you can think about
this project and what are the tools available in Azure AD
to help you get started.
Traditionally, users, devices, data, and apps have a
reside of being protecting within the corporate network.
With the arrival of the cloud, we now have an ecosystem of
users across multiple platforms. These users access these apps
from any vast range of devices and locations and new apps
are being used, developed, and retired every day.
You want to enable your users and partners to access the
applications to collaborate and be productive. But as this
access expands outside your corporate network, you also
want to keep your resources secure.
Azure AD offers a universal identity management system
that provides your people, partners, and customers a single
identity to securely access all the applications they need
from any platforms and device.
With Azure AD, you can increase productivity by managing
a single identity for each user across cloud and on-prem
environments, leverage self-service capabilities to empower
end users to get access to their resources they need at the
right time. You can manage costs by reducing the dependencies
on on-premises licenses and infrastructure.
In some cases, you may have already paid Azure AD via
M365 license, so why pay for an additional cost of another
identity access management solution?
You can manage risk by improving secure user access to
applications and corporate data using conditional access
policies, multi-factor authentication and real-time risk
based identity protection technologies.
You can address compliance to regulatory requirements by
enforcing corporate access policies and monetary user
access to applications and associated data using the auto
locks.
So, Jairo, how does this sound to you? So, customers move
their apps to Azure AD and enjoy all the benefits I mentioned.
Jairo: Luis, that’s a great idea, most definitely.
Luis: So, base on your experience working with customers,
how can they start thinking about this migration project?
Jairo: Well, you’ll see, Luis, when I talk to customers, one
of the first things that they think about is a stage plan how
to get there.
While you’ll see that there are multiple applications that they
don’t even know that they have that their users are using
on a day to day basis, so they need a discovery plan. They
need a way to discover all those applications that they need
to protect eventually. Once they have discovered those
applications, they need to think about how they are going to
classify and plan those applications, whether those apps need
to be modernized, whether those apps can be migrated and
basically replaced by modern versions of those applications,
whether they have applications in AD FS or some other
third party identity providers that they can very easily move
to Azure AD, or whether they have applications that are
legacy in nature, that they have these protocols like Kerberos
or header based authentication or form based authentication.
Any of these legacy protocols that they can actually publish
for remote access through the Azure AD application proxy
or through one of our partnerships that we have announced
very recently as well be it a F5 BIG IP APM or it could be
Zscaler CPA or it could be Citrix Netscaler, or Akamai. Any
of these options is a comprehensive way that customers
can start thinking about the plan on how to move these
applications to Azure AD.
I hope this gives you an idea on how to get started with your
migration project. In the next video, Luis is going to demo
how to use the AD FS application activity report to migrate
applications from AD FS to Azure AD. Until next time.
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