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Microsoft Entra Permissions Management AMA 2023
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If you attended our Permissions Management swarm and have any additional questions about the CIEM solution, join our Ask Me Anything event to get your questions answered by our product experts!
An AMA is a live text-based online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.
Feel free to post your questions about Entra Permissions Management anytime in the comments below beforehand, if it fits your schedule or time zone better, though questions will not be answered until the live hour.
- Naresh2174Copper ContributorWhat is the baseline or benchmark that Entra uses to indicate the risk or issue?
- singhanmolMicrosoftHi Naresh, if your question refers to Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, our CIEM solution, we use PCI (Permissions Creep Index) as a quantitative measure of risk associated with an identity or role determined by comparing permissions granted versus permissions exercised. It allows to instantly evaluate the level of risk associated with the number of unused or over-provisioned permissions across identities and resources.
- Patrick GogginsCopper Contributor
Will Entra introduce reduced privilege capabilities around OAuth token administration? How about browser based adding/deleting/updating? Currently GA permissions and uploading csv files are required for use.
- SteveBallMicrosoftThank you, Patrick. We're working on developing and releasing new scenarios in a short term and longer term roadmap - we'd love to hear your ideas (like OAuth token support which we do not support today.) Our current remediation processes are browser-based (or you can remediate via cut and pasting scripts from Entra Permissions Management into the console of choice.) If useful, could you expand on your CSV comment to clarify what you'd like to see with more detail?
- dinglehartCopper ContributorI want to kind of echo Patrick's comments but more broadly. There are a lot of functions in AAD altogether that require pretty high-level rights to manage, making it hard to delegate to appropriate personnel without over provisioning them. A specific example: If a user reports Fraud via Authenticator, it requires pretty high rights to clear. I would love to be able to delegate this to our SOC, but not giving them all kinds of other access.
- John WillsonCopper ContributorHas Entra been reviewed by ISACA or other umbrella auditing organization? If not what is the relationship of Entra to regular/annual IT audits?
- singhanmolMicrosoftWe adhere to multiple industry regulations, compliance and audits reports that you could find here on the service trust portal at: https://servicetrust.microsoft.com/Documents/ComplianceReports Here is an additional link to the documentation specific to reporting and monitoring in Azure AD : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/reports-monitoring/concept-audit-logs
- John WillsonCopper ContributorThanks - Having SOC is enough for most.
- Rajiv MisraCopper Contributorwhat is your security tool microsoft defender
- lauraviarengoMicrosoftHi Rajiv! More information about Microsoft Defender can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/endpoint-security/microsoft-defender-business
- dinglehartCopper ContributorDo you have a publicly available roadmap for upcoming features?
- SteveBallMicrosoftHi David - great question, we do not have a (public) roadmap update yet, however we are continuously working on new scenarios and features for Entra and Entra Permissions Management. If you have a specific scenario, need, or request, we'd love to hear more details?
- Andy BowenCopper ContributorAre there plans to improve the ID management between Microsoft and VMware Horizons?
- SteveBallMicrosoftThanks Andy - we hope to enable vSphere as a data source for Entra Permissions Management in the future, but could you clarify more details about what scenarios you'd like to see covering ID management for Horizons?
- dinglehartCopper ContributorI would like to be able to get compliance info into AAD from VMware Workspace One.
- lauraviarengoMicrosoftHi David! For questions about Azure AD, please visit the Azure AD discussion page: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-azure-ad/bd-p/Azure-Active-Directory
- John WillsonCopper Contributor
Similar to Andy Bowen's question: Are there plans to improve the ID management between Microsoft and (software X - such as CKAN etc)? An open API (encrypted but published not completely open) between third party software products such as say ChatGPT conversations?
- singhanmolMicrosoftHi John, we offer an extensive RESTful API platform, Microsoft Graph (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/overview) that enables third-party software platforms (like the ones you mentioned, Software X and ChatGPT) to access Microsoft Cloud services, including Microsoft identity platform that helps you build applications for users and customers to sign in and integrate with our identity services.
- John WillsonCopper ContributorThanks Anmol. OData with encryption or hashing would work didn't know it was on Graph.
- Trevor_RusherCommunity ManagerWelcome to the Microsoft Entra Permissions Management Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA)! This live hour gives you the opportunity to ask questions directly to the Microsoft team. Please post any questions in a separate, new comment thread. Thanks!
- Rajiv MisraCopper ContributorWhat tools do you recommend protecting your laptop from viruses and attacks?
- singhanmolMicrosoftHi Rajiv, this forum today is more specifically related to Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (MEPM), which is our CIEM tool. Regarding your question, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is our endpoint protection platform to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. For more, please refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint?view=o365-worldwide.
- Trevor_RusherCommunity ManagerThank you for joining our AMA today! We appreciate all the great questions and hope you learned something new! I'll be locking this event to new questions and sharing a summary of the questions and answers in this space in a bit.