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>> Zero Trust is a security strategy that moves away from
traditional perimeter based security to a new model of
explicit verification, least privileged access, and assuming
breach. Implementing Zero
Trust is a top security priority.
And in our Zero Trust Adoption Report for 2021, we found
that the majority of security decision makers state that
Zero Trust is critical to their organization’s success and in
the next couple of years, Zero Trust strategy is expected
to remain a top security priority and organizations
anticipate increasing their investment.
This represents a huge
opportunity for Microsoft and our
technology partners and we want to make it easy for
partners such as independent software vendors to
integrate with us, so customers can easily adopt the most
comprehensive security solutions.
I’m Nick Adman.
>> And I’m Adaeze Chukwu. We’re Program Managers on
the Microsoft Identity and Network Access Customer
Experience team. In this
video, we’ll give you an overview
of how technology partners can integrate with Azure Active
Directory to create identity
solutions that supports Zero Trust.
We integrate with a variety of strategic partners, as you
can see here. For ISVs who are considering integrating
with us, we would encourage you to level up your Zero
Trust readiness by adhering to the following best practices.
List your application in the Azure AD application gallery to
enable single sign-on and protect our customers from
password vulnerabilities.
Getting publisher verification also
increases trust, since customers would confirm that you
are the developer of the
application that they want to use.
In addition, it is essential to integrate with our key security
APIs such as conditional access which can trigger
multifactor authentication or block access to a risky user.
Next we will show you some partners who have integrated
their application to make them Zero Trust ready.
F5, our security partner, was able to leverage our
conditional access policies to secure all access to
applications, regardless of where they’re hosted.
With this integration capability,
our customers can protect
their assets and remain
productive by securely signing in
by conditions that have been set by their administrators.
Another one of our security partners, Lumapps, most
recently built conditional access authentication context
integrations. With this new integration, Lumapps enabled
customers to enforce location requirements, limiting
access to applications to onsite company networks and
also limited access to documentation that have been
marked as confidential.
Lastly, ensuring that all access is
only granted to approved devices.
You can find an in-depth analysis of our partners’ case
studies for building a Zero Trust foundation at the link
displayed on the screen.
>> So, we’ve talked about how technology partners can
integrate with Azure Active Directory to create Zero Trust
solutions for customers. But if you’re creating an app,
you’ll also want to make sure that your app itself is
adhering to Zero Trust best practices. To support this,
we’ve published best practices for developers who are
using the Microsoft Identity Platform. These include
properly registering your app with Azure AD, keeping
credentials out of your code, designing for least privileged
access, supporting continuous access evaluation, defining
app roles, and becoming a verified publisher.
We’ve published these Zero Trust best practices at
aka.ms/ZeroTrustGuidanceCenter.
>> We hope this video helped you understand how you
can partner with Microsoft to create identity solutions for
customers on their Zero Trust journey. We are proud of
the work our partners are doing to protect customers with
critical cybersecurity solutions.
To learn more and to find
guidance for identity and other Zero Trust pillars, go to
aka.ms/ZeroTrustGuidanceCenter.
Thanks for watching and we’ll see you next time.
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