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The user insights feature in Microsoft Entra External ID, now generally available, provides valuable metrics on user behavior through Microsoft Graph APIs and dashboards in the Microsoft Entra admin center. This blog post will guide you through building a customized Power BI dashboard using user insights to analyze metrics like total user count, active users, and MFA usage.

PSRule for Azure is a powerful tool designed to validate your Azure Infrastructure as Code (IaC). PSRule runs checks based on the Well-Architected Framework, helping you ensure your Azure solutions follow security best practices. See how to integrate PSRule into your workflow, and catch security issues in your IaC templates early.

Enhance your application by adding secure user profile editing with Microsoft Entra External ID. Microsoft Entra External ID provides simple integration for secure user authentication and profile management, offering custom branded sign-up experiences and efficient user management. The blog post covers high-level setup steps and links to detailed documentation for further guidance.

Integrate Microsoft Entra External ID with your Python Flask applications for secure user authentication. By leveraging External ID, you can securely manage access for external identities like business partners and customers, create custom branded sign-up experiences, and simplify user management. Follow this step-by-step guide to set up and run a sample Flask application using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL).

This blog post, the second in a three-part series, explores how to build a web application with decoupled authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra External ID and Cerbos. The focus is on practical implementation, demonstrating how to integrate these tools to secure your web application.

Discover an exciting new plugin in the Chat Copilot sample app from the Semantic Kernel team. This plugin lets an AI Agent call Microsoft Graph APIs secured by Microsoft Entra ID using the On-Behalf-Of (OBO) flow.

One of the interesting developments in the last few years in the field of authentication is the use of authentication brokers. Authentication brokers help make your applications more secure and resilient by enabling developers to remove the need to handle refresh tokens, simplify the user authentication flow and remove any variability from it, and take advantage of more complex authentication features, like Windows Hello, conditional access, and FIDO keys.

Microsoft Graph app permissions for a service or daemon may be too permissive, but more granular permissions can be scoped using Azure AD.