a German secondary school that prepares students for the university, that offers Latin but no Greek, and that typically emphasizes sciences and modern languages
Plyometric involves increasing muscle power, especially in the legs, by the repeated rapid stretching and contracting of muscles, as by rocket-shipping vertically from a squatting position or explosively jumping over objects. The explosive jumps in plyometrics—which is sometimes called “jump training”—were made popular by the Soviet track-and-field team in the 1970s, who incorporated them in preparing for the Olympic Games. In particular, you might be familiar with the “depth jump,” which is used in extreme fitness and strengthening workouts and involves repeated vertical drops from a box or bench followed by an immediate rebound back up.
a large room used for various indoor sports (such as basketball or boxing) and usually equipped with gymnastic apparatus
building (as on a college campus) containing space and equipment for various indoor sports activities and usually including spectator accommodations, locker and shower rooms, offices, classrooms, and a swimming pool
[German, from Latin, school] : a European secondary school that prepares students for the university
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) with a set of security measures and practices designed to protect cloud-based applications from various cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Defender for Cloud combines the capabilities of:
A development security operations (DevSecOps) solution that unifies security management at the code level across multicloud and multiple-pipeline environments.
A cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution that surfaces actions that you can take to prevent breaches.
A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) with specific protections for servers, containers, storage, databases, and other workloads.
DevSecOps. Defender for Cloud helps you to incorporate good security practices early during the software development process, or DevSecOps. You can protect your code management environments and your code pipelines, and get insights into your development environment security posture from a single location. Defender for DevOps, a service available in Defender for Cloud, empowers security teams to manage DevOps security across multi-pipeline environments.
CSPM. The security of your cloud and on-premises resources depends on proper configuration and deployment. Cloud security posture management (CSPM) assesses your systems and automatically alerts security staff in your IT department when a vulnerability is found. CSPM uses tools and services in your cloud environment to monitor and prioritize security enhancements and features admins can take to secure the environment.
CWPP. Proactive security principles require that you implement security practices that protect your workloads from threats. Cloud workload protections (CWP) surface workload-specific recommendations that lead you to the right security controls to protect your workloads. When your environment is threatened, security alerts right away indicate the nature and severity of the threat so you can plan your response.
Today’s world is about collaboration, working with people both inside and outside of your organization. That means you’ll sometimes need to provide access to your organization’s applications or data to external users.
Microsoft Entra External ID combines powerful solutions for working with people outside of your organization. With External ID capabilities, you can allow external identities to securely access your apps and resources. Whether you’re working with external partners, consumers, or business customers, users can bring their own identities. These identities can range from corporate or government-issued accounts to social identity providers like Google or Facebook.
Microsoft Entra External ID addresses the scenarios that are encountered when it comes to working with external users.
Collaborate with business guests
Secure your apps for consumers and business customers
Also, each of these scenarios suggests a different approach for how an organization configures their Microsoft Entra ID tenant.
While there’s no denying the rapid pace at which organizations are moving their workloads to the cloud, many businesses, and corporations are still a mixture of on-premises and cloud applications. Regardless of where an application is hosted, users expect and require easy access. As such, there’s need to have a single identity across these various applications.
Microsoft’s identity solutions span on-premises and cloud-based capabilities. These solutions create a common identity for authentication and authorization to all resources, regardless of location. We call this hybrid identity.
Hybrid identity is accomplished through provisioning and synchronization.
Inter-directory provisioning is provisioning an identity between two different directory services systems. For a hybrid environment, the most common scenario for inter-directory provisioning is when a user already in Active Directory is provisioned into Microsoft Entra ID.
Synchronization is responsible for making sure identity information for your on-premises users and groups is matching the cloud.
In Microsoft Entra ID, there are different types of identities that are supported. The terms you’ll hear and are introduced in this unit are user identities, workload identities, device identities, external identities, and hybrid identities. Each of these terms is described in more detail in the sections that follow.
When you ask the question, to what can I assign an identity in Microsoft Entra ID, there are three categories.
You can assign identities to people (humans). Examples of identities assigned to people are employees of an organization that are typically configured as internal users, and external users that include customers, consultants, vendors, and partners. For our purposes, we’ll refer to these as user identities.
You can assign identities to physical devices, such as mobile phones, desktop computers, and IoT devices.
Lastly, you can assign identities to software-based objects, such as applications, virtual machines, services, and containers. These identities are referred to as workload identities.
In this unit, we consider each type of Microsoft Entra identity.
User
User identities represent people such as employees and external users (customers, consultants, vendors, and partners). In Microsoft Entra ID, user identities are characterized by how they authenticate and the user type property.
How the user authenticates is asked relative to the host organization’s Microsoft Entra tenant and can be internal or external. Internal authentication means the user has an account on the host organization’s Microsoft Entra ID and uses that account to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID.
Microsoft Entra Verified ID is a managed verifiable credentials service based on open standards. Verified ID automates verification of identity credentials and enables privacy-protected interactions between organizations and users.
Why do we need it?
In the digital world, transactions are increasingly done over the web and often require individuals to make claims or assertions that organizations can digitally verify. The current process of obtaining and presenting a digital credential that can make a verifiable claim can be difficult and cumbersome. In addition, a digital credential serves as a digital identity. Once you use that online digital identity to access the desired service or make an online transaction, it’s common you begin to get targeted advertisements and emails for services for which you never signed up. That’s because it’s hard to retain control of your identity once you’ve shared it in exchange for access to a service.
Individuals and businesses need a way to express their qualifications and/or personal information, that is, our digital identities, over the web in a manner that is cryptographically secure, compliant to privacy requirements, and machine readable for verification. Additionally, individuals and organizations want to be able to control how and when their digital identities are used and shared. Verifiable credentials help address these challenges.