Implementing Zero-Trust Security for AI Applications
Zero-Trust security ensures AI applications remain protected while enabling legitimate business use cases.
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Zero-Trust security ensures AI applications remain protected while enabling legitimate business use cases.
Instead of client secrets: 1. External identity provider issues a token 2. Token is exchanged for an Azure AD token 3. Application uses Azure AD token to…
Identity-first security in 2021 meant rethinking how we control access. The tools are mature; the challenge is implementation discipline.
1. Verify Explicitly : Always authenticate and authorize based on all available data points 2. Least Privilege Access : Limit user access with just in time…
Azure AD Workload Identity is the architecture-level improvement over AAD Pod Identity that removes the NMI DaemonSet and uses Kubernetes native service…
AAD Pod Identity was the original mechanism for giving Kubernetes pods an Azure AD identity so they could access Azure resources—Key Vault secrets, Storage…
Flow Use Case User Interaction Authorization Code Web apps, mobile Yes Authorization Code + PKCE SPAs, mobile, desktop Yes Client Credentials Daemon/service…
MSAL handles: OAuth 2.0 protocol flows Token caching Token refresh Multi account support Conditional Access handling For APIs calling downstream APIs: MSAL…
Azure AD : Identity provider OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect : Protocols Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL) : Client libraries Microsoft Graph : API for…
Guests appear in your directory but authenticate elsewhere.
User Flows: Pre-built, configurable through portal Custom Policies: XML-based, fully customizable
Conditional Access is where the "never trust, always verify" principle of Zero Trust actually gets operationalised. Every sign-in to every app goes through…
The service identifies: Reconnaissance : Attackers gathering information about your environment Compromised credentials : Pass the hash, pass the ticket,…
B2C handles the complexity of customer identity so you can focus on your application.