Azure Privileged Identity Management

Awareness

This topic helps you to analyze the benefits of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Privileged Identity Management to secure the administrative access for organizations.

Business Requirements

Organizations want to minimize the number of people who have access to secure information or resources to reduce the chance of unauthorized access or an authorized user damaging critical organization information.

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) helps you manage privileged administrative roles across Azure AD, Azure resources, and other Microsoft Online Services. PIM provides solutions like just-in-time access, request approval workflows, and fully integrated access reviews so you can identify, uncover, and prevent malicious activities of privileged roles in real time.

Key Benefits

The key benefits of using Azure PIM are:

Manage Risk:

Secure your organization by enforcing the principle of Least Privilege Access and justin-time access. By minimizing the number of permanent assignments of users to privileged roles and enforcing approvals and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for elevation, you can greatly reduce security risks related to privileged access in your organization. It also allows you to view a history of access to privileged roles and track down security issues as they happen.

Address Compliance and Governance:

 Just-in-time elevation of privileged identities provides a way for PIM to keep track of privileged access activities in your organization. You are also able to view and receive notifications for all assignments of permanent and eligible roles inside your organization. Through access review, you can regularly audit and remove unnecessary privileged identities and make sure your organization is compliant with the most rigorous identity, access, and security standards.

Reduce Costs:

Reduce costs by dropping inefficiencies, human error, and security issues by deploying PIM correctly. The net result is a reduction of cyber-crimes associated with privileged identities, which are costly and difficult to recover from. PIM also helps your organization reduce costs associated with auditing access information associated with regulations and standards compliance.

Licensing Requirements:  Azure PIM capability requires Azure Active Directory Premium P2 license.