Azure Active Directory External Identities
Secure and manage customer and partner identities beyond your organization.
Overview
Simplify external identity management
Azure Active Directory External Identities, part of Microsoft Entra, provides highly secure digital experiences for partners, customers, citizens, patients, or any users outside your organization with customization controls. Combine external identities and user directories in one portal to seamlessly manage access across the organization.
- Give both onsite and remote employees seamless access to all their apps so they can stay productive anywhere. Automate workflows for easy user lifecycle management and provisioning. Save admin time and resources with self-service identity management for external users.
- Simplify access to thousands of pre-integrated software as a service (SaaS) applications with single sign-on from any location, on any device.
- Safeguard user credentials by enforcing strong authentication and conditional access policies. Efficiently manage your external identities by ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right resources.
- Secure and manage customer and partner identities beyond your organization with one identity management solution. Customize user journeys and simplify authentication with any identity including social IDs.
- Accelerate adoption of your enterprise application by supporting single sign-on and user provisioning. Reduce sign-in friction and automate the creation, removal, and maintenance of user accounts.
- Simplify the experience of managing and securing your entire identity infrastructure—including Azure AD External Identities—with the Microsoft Entra admin center.
Features
Secure access for external users at scale
One login
Single sign-on simplifies external access to your apps from anywhere.
Risk gates
Conditional access and multifactor authentication help protect and govern access.
Account hub
A single identity management platform lets you engage with internal and external users more securely.
Build kit
Developer tools make it easy to integrate identity workflow into your apps and services.
Security
Embedded security and compliance
34,000
Full-time equivalent engineers dedicated to security initiatives at Microsoft.
15,000
Partners with specialized security expertise.
>100
Compliance certifications, including over 50 specific to global regions and countries.
Pricing
Pricing for Azure Active Directory External Identities
Azure AD External Identities offers built-in conditional access and security threat intelligence for all your users. Benefit from a free tier and flexible, predictable pricing for external users. Explore pricing options to find the version that fits your needs.
Resources
Azure AD External Identities resources and documentation
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