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Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Academic)
Seamless identity and access management
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Simplified Access Governance
Control access to apps and data for all users and admins efficiently with automated identity governance, to ensure only authorized users have access.
Key features -
- Automatic provisioning and de-provisioning of identity lifecycle (connected to HR platform).
- Grant and review access with entitlement management, access reviews, and request workflows.
- Privileged identity management with time-limited access.
- Easy audit and compliance reporting.
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Unified Identity Management
Manage all your identities and access to all your applications in a central location for cloud and on-premises, to improve visibility and control.
Key features -
- Connect any app in any cloud or data center across your hybrid environment.
- Efficient identity management and administration for employees, partners and customers.
- Manage role-based RBAC for fine-grained access controls and delegated administration.
- Commitment to open standards and interoperability.
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Secure Adaptive Access
Protect access to resources and data using strong authentication and risk-based adaptive access policies, without compromising user experience.
Key features -
- Configurable Conditional Access policies based on context and risk assessment.
- Flexible, user-friendly multi-factor authentication (MFA).
- User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) in Identity Protection to protect against identity compromise.
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Seamless User Experiences
Provide an easy, fast sign-in experience to keep your users productive, reduce time managing pass.
Key features -
- Single sign-on (SSO) for any user type and any identity.
- End-user self-service portal to discover and launch applications, request access, and manage profile.
- Convenient, secure options for multi-factor authentication (MFA) with or without passwords.
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Comparing Editions
Azure Active Directory is a service that provides comprehensive identity and access management capabilities in the cloud for your employees, partners and customers. It combines directory services, advanced identity governance, a rich standards-based platform for developers, and application access management for your own or any of thousands of pre-integrated applications.
Check out Microsoft's Azure Active Directory edition comparison
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Azure Active Directory Basic
Designed for task workers with cloud-first needs, this edition provides cloud centric application access and self-service identity management solutions. With the Basic edition of Azure Active Directory, you get productivity enhancing and cost reducing features like group-based access management, self-service password reset for cloud applications, and Azure Active Directory Application Proxy (to publish on-premises web applications using Azure Active Directory), all backed by an enterprise-level SLA of 99.9 percent uptime.