Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides organizations with an incredibly powerful, yet simple and secure way to manage user access, authentication and identity protection. Azure AD makes it easier for IT to securely manage users, data and devices while reducing IT costs associated with managing user identities. Organizations can easily leverage the cloud platform to deploy applications to users and devices, while enforcing access and user authentication policies at the same time. The security features, such as multi-factor authentication, help prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to the organization’s critical data, ensuring that employees, partners, and customers are only accessing the data they’ve been granted.