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SHI Environment Lockdown & Defense

Overview

SHIELD is an orchestration tool that simplifies the deployment, management, and maintenance of Microsoft's Securing Privileged Access architecture. With SHIELD, you can automate the deployment of complex security infrastructures, device management, and user management while adhering to security best practices. SHIELD helps organizations to reduce the time and expertise required for deployment from a year or more to just a few minutes.

Audience

This documentation is primarily intended for technical users who are responsible for the deployment, management, and maintenance of security infrastructures. However, the documentation is designed to be accessible to non-technical users as well.

Key Features and Benefits

SHIELD comes with a range of features that simplify the deployment and management of complex security infrastructures. Some of the key features and benefits of SHIELD are:

  • Automate the deployment of complex security infrastructures
  • Manage devices, users, intermediaries, and server/interfaces with ease
  • Adhere to security best practices
  • Reduce maintenance efforts

SHIELD in the Security Landscape

SHIELD is an orchestration tool in the larger security landscape. It does not bring new security functionality, but instead automates the tools that already exist. SHIELD operates as an orchestrator for the rest of the security landscape, simplifying the deployment and management of complex security infrastructures.

Prerequisites

Check out this page for more details: Getting Started - Prerequisites

While not mandatory, it is highly recommended to use SHIELD in the following environment:

  • An Azure Subscription for hosting the application, as it is a security best practice to run the app in Azure
  • All objects to be managed by SHIELD (devices, users, apps, etc.) synced/connected to Entra ID, the primary identity provider used by SHIELD

By following these recommendations, you can speed up the adoption process for SHIELD.

Summary

In the rest of the documentation, we will provide detailed instructions on how to install, configure, and use SHIELD to achieve these benefits.

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