Azure Active Directory external Identities
Secure and manage customers and partners beyond your organisational boundaries
Simplify and manage customer and partner identities
Provide seamless and highly secure digital experiences for partners, customers, citizens, patients or any other user outside your organisation with the level of customisation and control your business requires. Bring user directories together into one portal to manage access across organisational boundaries.
Customer and partner identity management
Explore new ways to collaborate and engage through powerful identity management solutions. Learn how to secure digital relationships using authentication, access controls and identity protection
Seamless authentication with ‘bring your own identity’ for business partners and customers
Collaboration with partners using any Office 365, SaaS or custom LoB apps and services
Flexible and customisable sign-in experiences with company branding for customer-facing apps
Identity Protection with ongoing monitoring and detection for all user types
Simplify identity management with a single solution
Reduce the complexity and costs of managing multiple disconnected identity systems. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) offers a single cloud-based platform for your employee, customer, and partner identity and access management with industry-leading flexibility and scalability.
Connect with people, not with user types
Build an identity experience that works for any user, using any identity, on any device. Make it easy for customers and partners to sign up and sign in using their existing social media ID, phone number or credentials from any standards-based identity provider.
Protect your digital relationships
Collaborate with partners and enable seamless customer engagement, while maintaining trust. Apply greater levels of security and governance to detect security risks and ensure appropriate access to your organisation’s data and resources whenever, wherever.
Use your free tier of 50,000 monthly active users (MAUs)
Secure and manage your customer and partner identities and access in the cloud.
Documentation, training and resources
Getting started
Read the documentation to start using External Identities capabilities across Azure AD and Azure AD B2C today.
Thought Leadership
High-touch customisation for B2C scenarios
Explore customer identity management in Azure AD.
Trusted by companies of all sizes
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The IP security solutions provider created an automated system for clearing crime investigations.
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