claims

In my post on Identity and Access Management (IAM), I provided a very high-level view of how modern authentication works on the basis of a centralized Identity provider, like Azure Active Directory. In this post, let’s look at a Microsoft Azure video, where Azure AD Program manager Stuart Kwan presents the basics of modern claims-based authentication in a lucid and eloquent way. Clearly if a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is probably worth a million!