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Describe directory services in Azure

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Describe directory services in Azure

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- [Instructor] If you think about what's required to secure resources, certainly one of the most important things you need to know is who or what is accessing a particular resource. And to do that, you need to have an identity service. In Azure, Azure Active Directory fills that need. Azure Active Directory is a cloud-based identity service that authenticates and authorizes users. Authentication is the process of identifying who or what is attempting to access a resource, and authorization is the process of identifying what that person or resource can do once it's been authenticated. Azure Active Directory can give authenticated resources access to not only Azure Resources, but also third party resources and resources on premises. Once authenticated, a resource can be authorized to perform certain actions using identities and directory roles, and we'll dig into that more and see a demo later in this lesson. In addition to…

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