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AIA Hong Kong & Macau's Digital Transformation with Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Identity & Authentication Management
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Tamper Detection
- Voice Biometrics
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
AIA Hong Kong & Macau, a leading insurance company, was faced with the challenge of providing a secure and trusted digital experience for its customers. The company had opened its digital platform, AIA Connect, to its customers, offering a single platform for managing all insurance needs. However, the company was faced with the responsibility of ensuring that this platform was secure and trustworthy. The company was committed to protecting its customers from complex sign-in processes and potential online fraud risks and security threats. However, the growing user demand and the need for constant innovation around AIA Connect created a trifecta of issues—a longer and less reliable customer sign-in process, a growing risk of security fraud incidents, and the slow rollout of new features and innovations. The core cause was the aging legacy in-house platform that managed user identity and sign ins, which was struggling with scalability and a lack of compliance to modern standards.
About The Customer
AIA Hong Kong & Macau is a leading insurance company that provides a range of insurance products to its customers. In 2018, the company unveiled AIA Connect, its all-in-one digital platform that allows customers to manage all their insurance needs—from life, medical, pension to wellness products—using a single platform. The platform was an instant hit with rapid market adoption and now has over 700,000 customers enjoying the AIA Connect digital experience. The company is committed to providing a secure and trusted digital experience for its customers and is constantly innovating to make AIA Connect better and more secure.
The Solution
To overcome these challenges, AIA Hong Kong & Macau decided to upgrade its AIA Connect app with a new customer identity access management (CIAM) platform. The company selected Microsoft Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) as the primary CIAM platform while using Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Microsoft Azure SQL Database on the backend. This cloud-based approach allowed AIA to move the critical, resource-intense CIAM system off its own systems, providing immediate scalability, on-demand performance, and flexibility. The new system had to meet industry standards for security and provide future-proof performance to facilitate expansion of features and services in the evolving digital landscape. Azure AD B2C is a white-label authentication, B2C, identity-as-a-service platform capable of supporting millions of users and billions of authentications per day. Customers can sign in via the platform through a fully customized AIA branded user experience, while the backend ensures reliability, consistent response, and performance.
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