About Azure AD
Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud-based directory and identity management service. For an organization, Azure AD helps employees sign up to multiple services and access them anywhere over the cloud with a single set of login credentials.
Azure AD Roles
Setting up roles allows employees to have access to the information required to fulfill their responsibilities. Access rights and permissions are given to employees based on their job roles and designations. This helps protect business-critical data against misuse.
Azure Active Directory provides two types of role-based access controls:
- Built-in roles: Azure AD supports many built-in roles. However, each role includes a fixed set of permissions that cannot be modified.
- Custom roles: Azure AD also supports custom roles, including a collection of permissions that can be modified depending on the role. Granting permissions using custom roles is a two-step process. It involves creating a custom Azure AD role and assigning the permissions from a preset list. A custom role can be assigned at an organization level or object scope level. The member with custom permission rights can have access to all the organization’s resources, while object-scope permissions are limited to a single application.
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Read moreFAQs
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WHAT ARE SOME PROBLEMS WITH AD ROLES?
- Static. The roles need to be redefined in the database for every change, every time.
- Over privileges. The burden of maintaining (setting up and revoking) fine-grained permissions to each role is a pain and so overprivileges are granted as roles are extended.
- Complicated Mapping. Mapping each role to groups in the AD is time-consuming and requires knowledge and a “future” understanding of what each group or user might need.
- Not Scalable. As employees need more and more permissions, it’s nearly impossible to still deliver fine-grained access to members in AD groups. Instead more privileges are just being granted to the whole group.
- Role Explosions. Roles in Azure are limited to defining access permissions by role, however, as each user often requires entirely unique access rights, one user may be assigned several roles, creating a ‘one size fits all’ solution that can result in too much (or too little) access. This also makes enterprises vulnerable to an exponential rise in roles versus users.