External Identity

  Microsoft Azure AD B2B collaboration (sometimes known as ‘External Identities’) provides secure, managed collaboration for your organisation’s external relationships. What this means is that when you work with organisations and users outside of your organisation to get things done, you don’t need to create new users and passwords in your directory and closely manage user access and lifecycles.  You can use the built-in federation capabilities of Azure Active Directory to add a user with credentials elsewhere, and choose from a number of options for inviting/approving the user and managing their ongoing access. Why collaborate? From sharing a SharePoint or Teams site with a supplier or customer, to giving access to a project management or HR application to contractors or joint venture partners – most organisations need to collaborate with external parties for one reason or another.   But at the same time, external users often don’t have the same onboarding and offboarding mechanisms a

Azure AD B2C ("B2C") is a state-of-the-art cloud identity provider from Microsoft, closely related to Azure Active Directory. Why do you need B2C? If you provide a customer or member portal on your website, you may be feeling the pressure to provide frictionless user experiences that encourage greater engagement with your platform.  Organisations have to find a way to balance these demands with securing personal information from threats – a security hole can potentially become an embarrassing and costly data breach. B2C, an enterprise-grade identity provider backed by Microsoft security infrastructure, offers a superb user experience and world-class threat protection. Frictionless commerce Having to create yet another password is a huge factor in user disengagement, particularly on websites where the user can easily find a competitor. But even where there is no competition between providers, friction can lead to disengagement - meaning fewer customers/members for your organis