{"id":829,"date":"2022-09-21T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/startups\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T14:38:59","slug":"startupsonazure-silverfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/startups\/blog\/startupsonazure-silverfort\/","title":{"rendered":"#StartupsOnAzure – Silverfort and Azure bring unified identity protection to on-premises, cloud, and edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Countless organizations rely on Microsoft Azure to create their most innovative and secure application and workload environments in the cloud. Today identity protection for cloud and web applications doesn’t provide native support for core enterprise resources like legacy applications, workstations, and servers. This leaves them exposed to identity threats without any security countermeasures. And because of the interconnected hybrid environment, this gap enables attackers to use on-premises identity Silverfort<\/a> delivers unified identity protection that bridges these gaps across on-premises environments and cloud to the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today\u2019s typical hybrid world of on-premises, cloud, and edge environments has removed the restraints of innovation, collaboration, and application access for SMBs to enterprises. Concurrently, this innovative hybrid workflow has also unleashed a rise in identity attacks and security gaps still remain for enterprises in protecting core resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sheer complexity of today\u2019s hybrid environments results in end-to-end gaps that existing authentication and access solutions cannot close. Organizations will continue to use on-premises, cloud, and edge environments that are difficult to manage and secure in terms of identity access controls. This creates a particular set of challenges for hybrid environments that includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These aspects can leave identity-based access control and multi-factor authentication coverage gaps, which, in a hybrid environment where access needs are more fluid, can lead to a high risk of ongoing data breaches. SMBs to enterprises have lacked a unified solution for identity protection across all users, systems, and environments that emphasizes enforcement of risk-based authentication and zero-trust policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Silverfort\u2019s Unified Identity Protection platform<\/a> was the first of its kind, purpose-built for prevention, detection, and response against attacks via compromised credentials to access targeted resources. Its patented agentless and proxy-less technology integrates with all identity providers in a hybrid environment. This adds a native, real-time protection layer for all authentication and access attempts on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, organizations can extend multi-factor authentication (MFA), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and zero-trust policies to any user, system, and environment, including legacy applications, service accounts, command-line access to workstations, and servers, as well as any other core resources that previously couldn\u2019t have MFA protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to its integration with multiple security and identity solutions, Silverfort enables risk-based authentication, MFA, and detection for account takeover, malicious remote connections, and lateral movement. Organizations can thus securely migrate applications and assets to the cloud, including applications that do not provide cloud-native identity protection support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Azure Cloud Services<\/strong><\/a> is a cloud computing platform leader for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Countless organizations use many of Azure’s over 200 products and cloud services to run and manage applications across multi-cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Azure Cloud supports a wide range of operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, tools, databases, and devices while delivering cloud and IT environment integration with extensive security tools and integrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Active Directory (AD)<\/strong><\/a> delivers processes and services for Windows domain networks. Most Windows Server operating systems include it to store information about objects on the network. It\u2019s designed to make it easy for admins or users to find and use shared resources, including servers, volumes, printers, and network user computer accounts. AD also offers integrated security through logon authentication and access control to objects in the directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS)<\/strong><\/a> run on Windows Server operating systems giving users single sign-on (SSO) access to their systems and applications. These can exist inside or outside corporate firewalls such as other company extranets or cloud provider-hosted services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)<\/strong><\/a>, a cloud-based IAM service, helps you access external resources, including thousands of SaaS applications. It offers multi-cloud identity and access management via single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and conditional access to guard against cybersecurity attacks. While AD manages traditional on-premises infrastructure and applications, Azure AD focuses on managing user access to cloud applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Azure Active Directory MFA (multi-factor authentication)<\/strong><\/a> helps organizations safeguard data and application access via an additional layer of security that requires a second form of authentication. Organizations can enable conditional access with MFA to fit specific users and groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMeeting the challenges of unified identity protection across cloud and on-premises<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Silverfort’s Unified Identity Protection platform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How Azure Services are helping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n