Microsoft Entra Private Access | Microsoft Security (2024)

FAQs

What is Microsoft Entra private access? ›

Microsoft Entra Private Access unlocks the ability to specify the fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) and IP addresses that you consider private or internal, so you can manage how your organization accesses them.

Modernize private app access with identity-centric ZTNA

Quickly and easily connect remote users to private apps from any device and any network.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is a security service that verifies users and grants access to specific applications based on identity and context policies. ZTNA removes implicit trust to restrict network movement and reduce attack surfaces.

The Global Secure Access client acquires traffic using a lightweight filter (LWF) driver, while many other Security Service Edge (SSE) solutions integrate as a virtual private network (VPN) connection. This distinction allows the Global Secure Access client to coexist with these other solutions.

Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure AD. The names Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, and AAD are replaced with Microsoft Entra ID. Microsoft Entra is the name for the product family of identity and network access solutions.

Advantages of ZTNA solutions

ZTNA will replace VPNs for application access, which is 90% of what organizations need for remote access.

ZTNA is not meant to replace firewalls but rather complement them. Firewalls are still essential to a comprehensive security solution and provide the first line of defense against external threats.

Hardware firewalls are limited to fewer data centers so employee connectivity is often slower and less optimal. ZTNA connects remote workers to over 50 data centers, ensuring smooth network performance. Physical firewalls don't check for device posture security.

What is the objective of ZTNA? ›

ZTNA improves flexibility, agility and scalability, enabling digital ecosystems to work without exposing services directly to the internet, reducing risks of distributed denial of service attacks. From an architectural perspective, ZTNA works fundamentally differently from network-centric solutions.

ZTA covers user-endpoints where management control and visibility is required. Aligning to the zero-trust model means implementing a least access policy that grants the user the minimum level of network access required for their role and removing any ability to access or see other parts of the network.

Global Secure Access (preview) is the area in the Microsoft Entra admin center where you configure and manage Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access. Go to https://entra.microsoft.com. If you encounter access issues, refer to this FAQ regarding tenant restrictions.

If you are referring to using a VPN to bypass geo-restrictions to earn more Microsoft Rewards, it's not recommended. Using a VPN for Microsoft Reward violates Microsoft Rewards' terms of service. And if you get detected using a VPN while completing Microsoft Reward activities, then you will get banned.

In Windows, the built-in plug-in and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) VPN plug-in platform are built on top of the Windows VPN platform.

The Microsoft Priva family of solutions empowers your organization to automate the management, definition, and tracking of privacy procedures at scale to help ensure that personal data stays private, secure, and compliant with regulations. Solutions that are in preview: Consent Management. Privacy Assessments.

In this article, you learn some of the fundamental concepts of Identity and Access Management (IAM), why it's important, and how it works. Identity and access management ensures that the right people, machines, and software components get access to the right resources at the right time.

Microsoft Entra ID is a cloud-based identity and access management service that your employees can use to access external resources. Example resources include Microsoft 365, the Azure portal, and thousands of other SaaS applications.

ZTNA has many advantages over VPN including more extensive checks of both user and device, more granular access granted, and ongoing checks. These measures make it more difficult for bad actors to gain and maintain access to resources.