Managing User Identities and Roles
In this section, you will learn about user access control, or the ability to identify users in your cloud environment and, after authenticating the users, to determine who they are. You can then apply access rights to define what they are allowed to do on the network. You will learn about granting rights based on an administrative user’s role on the network. Then you will learn about the differences between mandatory and discretionary access controls. To add security, you must use several steps to log into a network; this is referred to as multifactor authentication, which will be covered. Finally, the concept of federations will be introduced and explained.
RBAC: Identifying Users and What Their Roles Are
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a method in which access rights are granted to, or restricted from, users based on which roles they perform in an organization. RBAC uses different defined permission levels to assign routine activities and...
