ReShield x Azure Active Directory Integration (now Entra ID)

Introduction

In today's fast paced digital world, organizations are swiftly migrating to cloud solutions to drive agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) has become an essential tool for managing identities and access within both Microsoft centric environments and the broader cloud ecosystem. However, as IT landscapes expand and diversify, effectively managing identity security becomes increasingly complex and challenging.

Recognizing these challenges, we at ReShield have developed a comprehensive integration with Azure AD, providing organizations with robust tools to manage identity security effortlessly. Whether you're dealing with employees, contractors, service accounts, or automated processes, ReShield simplifies identity governance, making it intuitive, secure, and manageable.

The Real Challenges of Managing Identity Security Today

As organizations evolve, the sheer number of identities they must manage grows exponentially. These aren't just human users; they also include service accounts, bots, scripts, and third-party integrations. Each identity presents potential vulnerabilities if not effectively managed.

Here are some critical identity security issues businesses face today:

• Limited Visibility: Most organizations struggle with obtaining a clear, consolidated view of all active identities and the permissions associated with each.

• Overprivileged Identities: Without precise, ongoing governance, identities frequently end up with more permissions than necessary, amplifying risk.

• Dormant Accounts: Inactive accounts, especially service accounts or those from former employees, remain unnoticed and pose serious security threats.

• Credential Management Issues: Service accounts with static credentials that aren't regularly rotated become prime targets for attackers.

Given these complexities, manual management is not just inefficient but it's risky. This is precisely why identity security, particularly through AzureAD integration, demands proactive attention and advanced tooling.

Introducing ReShield’s Integration with Azure AD / Entra ID

Understanding these very real challenges, ReShield has introduced a sophisticated, yet user-friendly integration with Azure AD. This integration not only addresses identity related complexities but also greatly enhances your overall security posture.

Comprehensive Discovery of All Identities

With ReShield connected to Azure AD, you instantly achieve full visibility across your identity ecosystem. The integration automatically discovers and catalogs all identities, whether human or non-human, giving you a complete, unified inventory. This foundational visibility is crucial for proactive security management.

Detailed Insights into Permissions

Knowing who can access what, and why, is central to strong identity governance. ReShield allows you to:

• Map Effective Permissions: Quickly determine exactly what resources an identity can access and what actions they're permitted to perform.

• Clarify Access Paths: Clearly understand how each identity received its permissions, through groups, roles, or direct assignment—helping to eliminate permission creep.

This detailed understanding enables rapid remediation of overprivileged accounts, significantly reducing unnecessary risks.

Quickly Identify IAM risks

ReShield proactively identifies risks within your identity environment by clearly flagging hundreds of insights based on Mitre Attack frameworks and required compliiance, for eg:

• Dormant Identities: Accounts that have been inactive for extended periods, marking them for review or removal.

• Overprivileged Users: Accounts with permissions that exceed what’s required for their role or function, enabling you to swiftly mitigate potential threats.

Companies can always enable custom policies for these insights. By systematically addressing these vulnerabilities, organizations can drastically reduce potential attack vectors.

Automated Credential Rotation

One major headache for security teams is managing credentials for privileged service accounts. ReShield simplifies this by automating credential rotation processes. This ensures that even if credentials are compromised, their validity is limited, dramatically lowering the chance of prolonged unauthorized access.

Just-In-Time (JIT) Privileged Access

Permanent, standing privileges represent one of the greatest security vulnerabilities. To mitigate this, ReShield incorporates Just-In-Time (JIT) access management, ensuring users receive permissions strictly on an as needed basis, for precisely the duration required.

Automate and Streamline Access Reviews and Audits

Regular access reviews are mandatory for robust compliance and security. Yet, manual reviews can be tedious and error prone. ReShield automates and simplifies this process by:

• Providing Detailed Reports: Automatically compiling comprehensive access reports that auditors need.

• Highlighting Unusual Activities: Detecting and flagging anomalies or policy violations in access patterns, enabling rapid response.

This significantly reduces compliance headaches, improving both accuracy and security.

Seamless, Easy Integration with Azure AD / Entra ID

At ReShield, we believe adopting advanced security solutions shouldn’t mean complicated setups. Our Azure AD integration uses industry standard protocols such as OAuth2 and SAML, ensuring fast, hassle free implementation without disrupting existing workflows.

Simple Integration Steps:

1. Establish Secure Connection: Easily configure a secure integration between Azure AD and ReShield using OAuth2 or SAML.

2. Synchronize Identities: Automatically import and sync all identity data from Azure AD.

3. Define Policies: Effortlessly configure access policies, JIT rules, credential rotation schedules, and criteria for identifying dormant or overprivileged accounts.

4. Monitor and Remediate: Utilize ReShield’s intuitive dashboard to manage identities proactively, responding quickly to emerging risks.

Extend Identity Security Beyond Azure AD / Entra ID

While Azure AD excels in managing identities within Microsoft's Azure ecosystem, organizations frequently encounter challenges managing identities across non-Azure applications and services , for example self hosted databases, applications that don't support traditional SSO, Kubernetes clusters, cloud platforms like AWS or GCP etc.

ReShield bridges these critical gaps, offering a comprehensive solution that goes beyond Azure AD:

• Databases: Secure sensitive data with precise, granular access control, even for databases hosted outside of Azure.

• Servers: Effectively manage SSH access, providing granular, temporary permissions and robust monitoring of all server activity.

• SaaS Applications: Extend governance uniformly to SaaS apps, including those without native Azure AD support, ensuring consistent identity policies.

• Cloud Platforms & Kubernetes: Seamlessly manage identity security across multiple clouds and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring uniform protection and compliance everywhere.

This integrated approach ensures your identity security strategy remains robust, consistent, and seamless, no matter where your digital resources reside.

Take Control of Your Identity Security with ReShield

Ready to upgrade your identity security? ReShield’s Azure AD integration empowers you to confidently manage identity-related risks, streamline compliance, and optimize your operations.

Explore the integration capabilities at ReShield Integrations , or schedule a demo and experience firsthand how easy it is to elevate your identity security posture.

We're making identity security simple, comprehensive, and cloud-native, because your access layer shouldn’t stop where Azure AD does