Streamlining employee onboarding: Microsoft’s response to the Great Reshuffle

Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Verifiable credentials may help improve employee experience, an important factor HR and IT business leaders must pay attention to as expectations evolve.

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Secure access for a connected world—meet Microsoft Entra

Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Identity is not just about directories, and access is not just about the network. Security challenges have become much broader, so we need broader solutions. We need to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database.

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How a senior product manager is leading the passwordless movement at Microsoft

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000

May 5, 2022, is World Password Day, a day we all use to create awareness around password security. At Microsoft, we choose to celebrate replacing passwords with better and more secure ways to sign in. I can’t think of a better person at Microsoft to represent this journey than Libby Brown, a senior product manager…

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How one senior developer brings the startup spirit to Microsoft

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Igor Sakhnov, corporate vice president of Identity and Network Access Engineering, talks with software engineer George Maina about his entrepreneurial journey and the beginnings of the Microsoft Africa Development Center in Kenya.

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Denonia cryptominer is first malware to target AWS Lambda

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:36:53 +0000

There is now malware in serverless environments. Dubbed Denonia, it specifically targets the AWS Lambda to perform cryptojacking.

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How a leading Microsoft engineer extends culture to service resiliency

Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Nadim Abdo, Corporate Vice President of Identity and Network Access Engineering, talks with principal software engineering manager, Huiwen Ru, on her groundbreaking work to make cloud services resilient.

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Why decentralization is the future of digital identities

Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Our identity is increasingly becoming digitized –more of our hard copy credentials are converting into digital formats. We use these digital credentials to work, learn, play, socialize, shop, and consume services online and offline every day.

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Empower Firstline Workers with Azure AD and YubiKey passwordless authentication

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:00:37 +0000

The integration of FIDO2-based YubiKeys and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a game changer.

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Microsoft identity acronyms—what do they mean and how do they relate to each other?

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 17:00:54 +0000

This is the first in a blog series to help lessen confusion around identity by sharing with you some of the terms used at Microsoft.

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