Strata Identity announced a Microsoft Identity Cookbook to help businesses securely move authentication from on-premises Microsoft Active Directory to the cloud-based Microsoft Enter ID. The recipes will also help enterprises extend Sign In ID to on-premises legacy Windows applications that don’t support modern cloud identity protocols.
The cookbook includes orchestration recipes to help security teams automate and simplify the process of modernizing applications from Active Directory to Entra ID. Because recipes work within Strata’s Maverics Identity Orchestration platform, security teams don’t need to rewrite application code or require users to install third-party plugins, Strata said in the release.
Supported use cases include securing and migrating .NET applications and retiring Microsoft Active Directory NTLM authentication. NTLM does not support modern security features such as multi-factor authentication and does not support encryption. The recipe for protecting .NET applications with Entra ID centralizes identity management and unifies single sign-on for both on-premises and cloud applications, as well as supports conditional access and multi-factor authentication. A separate recipe helps teams migrate .NET applications from Active Directory to a cloud identity provider.
Customers can use the Cookbook to retire AD authentication and replace it with Entra ID, or keep both indefinitely, Strata said.