As your organization moves more operations to the Azure cloud, it's essential to ensure that they run securely.
We can use complex passwords and multi-factor authentication for added safety for human accounts. However, dealing with system accounts requires a different approach.
The Azure environment provides many options for identity, like Service Principals, Managed Identities, and Federated & Workload Identity.
Which type should you use when? How can you apply 'least-privilege principles' to identities? Or, how do you deal with credentials of identities? What if a part of the workload is running outside of Azure? It can get very complicated very quickly.

In this talk, I will explain the various options to use identity in Azure, and provide practical examples.
By the end of this talk, you will better understand how to secure workloads running in Azure and how to prevent an identity crisis in Azure.

Target audience: Cloud software developers, architects.

Key learning points:
1. To learn about the different identity options available in Azure, for authenticating and authorizing one resource to access another.
2. Understanding which identity option to use when.
3. How to combine multiple system identities and Azure Role Based Access Control to apply the principle of 'least-privilege'.