Security News > 2022 > May > Microsoft's identity services huddle under Entra umbrella

Microsoft has whipped out the rebranding team once more, and chosen the name "Entra" as a catch-all for the company's identity and access capabilities.

Sadly nothing to do with the sometimes-missed Encarta, the encyclopaedia launched by Microsoft back in the 1990s and eventually killed off in the first decade of the twenty-first century, Entra is not so much about squinting at postage stamp-sized bits of video and more about Azure Active Directory and Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management.

While AAD is a familiar friend to administrators responsible for an estate utilizing Microsoft's cloud, CIEM is a recognition that multicloud is a thing and management of identity over a variety of infrastructures and services is needed.

This chunk of Entra has been dubbed Microsoft Entra Permissions Management and is designed to automate the principle of least privilege as well as unifying cloud access policies over a user's cloud infrastructure.

Also in the Entra family is Microsoft Entra Verified ID, a decentralized identity service that bears more than a passing resemblance to Microsoft's existing public preview of Azure Active Directory Verified Credentials.

In a world increasingly concerned about sovereignty, Microsoft's Verified ID hands control of identity to the user and, according to Microsoft "Enables organizations to have privacy-protected interactions with users."

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