Kinde vs. Active Directory

Authenticating users is one of the most critical and high-impact moments in your customers' journey. With Kinde, you can take complete control. We give you the power to manage user authorization with passwordless authentication, social logins, and enterprise SSO. You can also support your customers' branding with custom domains and a fully customizable UI, even by uploading your own designs. For complex requirements, our powerful workflows let you run your own code during the authentication process. You can easily organize all your business customers using organizations, making it simple to segment them and fine-tune their authentication experience to their unique needs. Kinde also lets you monetize your ideas faster with robust billing tools. You can effortlessly set up subscription plans and start collecting revenue. Kinde's flexible system is built to support any business model—B2C, B2B, or B2B2C—and its powerful organization management and flexible billing logic will scale with your business and your customers.

Active Directory functions as a central hub for storing information about a variety of objects in a network, which simplifies management and access for both users and administrators. It utilizes a structured format for data storage, allowing for a logical and hierarchical organization of directory information. This central repository, known as the directory, contains information about different Active Directory entities, typically including shared assets like servers, volumes, printers, along with user and computer accounts within the network. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the Active Directory data repository, one can consult the section dedicated to the Directory data store. Integrated security protocols within Active Directory ensure secure logon authentication and regulate access to directory objects. With a single network logon, administrators can efficiently manage directory information and organizational hierarchies across the entire network while authorized users can easily access resources from any point within that network. Furthermore, policy-based administration enhances the management process, increasing efficiency even in complex network configurations. This system not only fortifies security measures but also optimizes resource management, thereby improving overall network operation effectiveness. By centralizing these functions, Active Directory becomes a vital component in maintaining a well-organized and secure networking environment.