Cutting-edge identity management for your applications
Boost user trust, enhance security, and streamline onboarding with the Microsoft identity platform—all while saving development time.
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Identity management for employees and partners
Protect access to your organization's resources and data using strong authentication and real-time, risk-based adaptive access policies with Microsoft Entra ID.
Customer identity and access management
Customize and control how your customers sign up, sign in, and manage their profiles when using your applications with Microsoft Entra External ID.
Identity management for applications and services
Manage identities for apps and services and secure their access to resources using Microsoft Entra Workload ID.
User-generated, decentralized digital credentials
Issue and accept verifiable credentials using Microsoft Entra Verified ID.
Explore the Microsoft identity platform and identity fundamentals
Explore
The Microsoft identity platform is a comprehensive framework that enables you to integrate authentication and authorization services into your applications.
Learn
Learn fundamental concepts and terminology to help you understand identity and access management (IAM) and get you building in no time.
Develop
The Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) is a versatile, cross-platform library that streamlines the integration of authentication with your applications and enhances application security and user experience.
Identity for a connected world, in a single toolkit
Identity and Microsoft Graph
Connect to Microsoft Graph and build apps, services, or workflows for Microsoft 365 organizations and consumers.
Build on a platform that gives you access to powerful data and functionality through a single endpoint.
Streamline new user onboarding, assign managers, grant permissions to documents, add users to roles, and more.
Identity and Microsoft 365
Build apps that are secure by default using Microsoft Entra ID for identity and authentication.
Extend popular Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint, integrating custom workflows and services.
Leverage rich SDKs and APIs, ensuring seamless integration with Microsoft 365 services for your applications.
Identity and Azure
Build, deploy, scale, and manage high-performance applications securely, with Microsoft Azure. Integrate seamlessly using familiar development environments like Visual Studio and GitHub with a vast range of operating systems, languages, frameworks, and databases supported.
Use Azure's advanced DevOps tools to streamline and accelerate delivery. And harness Azure's AI and machine learning tools to embed intelligent algorithms into your applications.
Identity and Power Platform
Create and scale custom apps rapidly with minimal coding using Power Platform's low-code capabilities.
Automate workflows and processes across applications and services while taking advantage of Microsoft's robust security architecture and identity and access management features.
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