Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, provides cloud identity and access management for authenticating users and enforcing authorization across Azure resources, applications, and hybrid environments. section 5.4.5
Use it to:
- Manage users and groups, secure sign-ins, provide single sign-on, and apply role-based access control. section 5.4.5
- Control access to ADLS Gen2 through identity-based policies combined with fine-grained POSIX-style ACLs. section 5.4.5
- Federate identities across domains and integrate with SaaS applications and cloud or on-premises resources. section 5.4.5
Healthcare lakehouse access
A healthcare analytics firm can combine ADLS with Entra ID and file-level ACLs to restrict patient and clinical-trial data access under HIPAA-oriented controls. section 5.5.2


