Microsoft Entra @ Microsoft Ignite

This is a special edition of Entra.News listing all the Microsoft Entra related sessions at this month's Microsoft Ignite

👋 Hi, Merill here with a special Ignite edition of entra.news! This post lists all the Microsoft Entra related sessions in one page.

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🎙️Breakout Sessions

Secure access in the AI era: What’s new in Microsoft Entra

Reduce complexity, protect every identity, enforce least privilege access and improve user experience with a unified identity and security service edge (SSE) solution. This demo-centric session follows an employee as they onboard, access resources and collaborate. Explore Microsoft Entra (formerly Azure AD) innovations so you can automatically prevent identity compromise, enforce granular access policies, govern permissions and leverage AI to secure access for anyone to anything from anywhere.

• Speakers: Joy Chik, Jade DSouza, John Savill

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Accelerate your Zero Trust journey with unified access controls

Learn how to simplify your Zero Trust architecture with universal policies for any access point, from legacy on-premises resources to cloud apps and web, without code changes. The identity-centric Security Service Edge (SSE) solution in Microsoft Entra takes Conditional Access to a new level, protecting any network destination with granular access controls that consider identity, device, and network. Secure access for anyone to anything from anywhere with unified identity and network access.

• Speakers: Alex Simons, Camila Martins, Carmichael Patton, Sinead O'Donovan

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Boosting ID Protection Amid Sophisticated Attacks

Join us for a deep dive into the escalating landscape of threats targeting digital identities amidst evolving tech realms of IoT, OT, and hybrid workspaces. Uncover alarming statistics and real-world incidents underscoring the dire need to reinforce identity protection. And learn more about innovation in automated key management and Hardware Security Modules (HSM) for fortified key storage, crucial in mitigating human errors and bolstering defenses against sophisticated aggressors.

• Speakers: Alex Weinert, Mia Reyes

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Bringing Passkey into your Passwordless Journey

The industry is all abuzz with excitement about passkeys! As most customers are either deploying a form of Passwordless credential or planning to in the next few years there's no better time to learn about passkeys. Join the Microsoft Entra product team as we walk you through the background of where passkeys came from, their impact on the passwordless ecosystem, the product features and roadmap bringing passkeys into the Microsoft Entra passwordless portfolio and phishing resistant strategy.

• Speakers: Calvin Lui, Erik Dauner, Mayur Santani

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🗣️ Product Roundtables

Product Roundtables at Microsoft Ignite are 60-minute, product-focused sessions where you have the opportunity to discuss the future of products or services. These are focus-group style and intended to be feedback-driven sessions.

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Unified Conditional Access controls: Identity & Security Service Edge

Are you looking for ways to secure access to your applications and resources? Do you have insights, challenges, or best practices to share with your industry peers? Join our panel of Microsoft Security Service Edge (SSE) and Identity experts to discuss how using Conditional Access and our SSE solution help you consolidate access policies, modernize your network, and simplify your environment.

• Speakers: Ashish Jain, Yair Tor, Nitika Gupta

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💻 Online Sessions

Effortless Application Migration Using Microsoft Entra ID

We understand that customers want to easily migrate their on-premises applications away from Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS). Our newly proposed tool supplies a one-click configuration to integrate applications into Microsoft Entra ID. During this on-demand session, we will provide an overview of our tool that offers a guided experience to seamlessly facilitate the migration of your applications from AD FS to Microsoft Entra ID.

• Speakers: Jorge Lopez, Swapnil Maldhure

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How phishing-resistant MFA can be the key to your Zero Trust strategy

Passwords are no longer secure. Mobile authentication is phishable. Strong authentication is critical. Validating the devices that control authentication are secure is a critical component to Zero Trust. Watch this video to learn how the YubiKey provides phishing-resistant MFA and works with Microsoft solutions to support Zero Trust initiatives.

• Speaker: Derek Hanson

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Making Zero Trust real: End to end security architecture and guidance

Are you facing challenges planning an end-to-end security approach for your organization? Join us for a discussion on how to deploy Microsoft’s Security capabilities into a holistic Zero Trust strategy. We will share an updated Zero Trust reference architecture, exploring the latest Microsoft security capabilities, upcoming innovations and deployment guidance to help you strengthen your security today and prepare for the age of AI.

• Speakers: Mark Simos | Sharon Chahal

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