{"id":44668,"date":"2023-10-26T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?p=44668"},"modified":"2024-11-08T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T21:24:27","slug":"active-directory-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/active-directory-integration","title":{"rendered":"What is Active Directory Integration (ADI)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Active Directory (AD) was introduced two decades ago to provide centralized user and rights management as well as Windows PC configurations for private networks behind firewalls. Email was the first factor to upend that model for access control, and was followed by the proliferation of cloud services and devices that transformed networks into a digital estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The perimeter model that AD supported worked well, until it didn\u2019t. Its shortcomings helped lay the groundwork<\/a> for the Zero Trust<\/a> approach to identity and access management (IAM). Zero Trust brings access control (the perimeter) closer to identities and devices by enforcing explicit trust before granting access to resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n JumpCloud\u2019s open directory platform makes it possible to modernize AD for Zero Trust. It works by combining cloud IAM with universal endpoint management (UEM) and other essential services to manage today\u2019s IT infrastructures, which are a hybrid of everything, everywhere. JumpCloud\u2019s Active Directory Integration<\/a> (ADI) feature integrates AD with the open directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADI makes it possible to extend multi-domain environments to the cloud without locking small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into a suite of vertically integrated tools. That approach to AD modernization can limit freedom of choice and distract from your overall mission with significantly higher IT management overhead. This article provides an overview of what ADI is and how it works to help SMEs reestablish the strong access control that was lost when AD\u2019s network perimeter model couldn’t support modern IT infrastructure requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n