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Discover, restrict, and monitor access rights

Ensure your admin accounts stay secure by limiting access to critical operations with privileged identity management (PIM) solutions.

Reimagine secure access with Microsoft Entra

Discover the latest identity and access innovations and how to strengthen your defenses with Microsoft Entra.

What is privileged identity management?

Privileged identity management provides time-based and approval-based role activation to mitigate the risks of excessive, unnecessary, or misused access to important resources in your organization.

Privileged identity management in Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra privileged identity management enables you to limit standing admin access to privileged roles, discover who has access, and review privileged access.

Intro to privileged identity management

Manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization with Microsoft Entra ID privileged identity management.

Manage least-privilege access

Enforce the principle of least privilege by periodically reviewing, renewing, and extending access to resources.

Use just-in-time privileged access

Eliminate persistent access and enforce time-limited access for critical roles in privileged identity management.

Discover and monitor access

Ensure you know who has access to what and receive notifications when privileged roles are activated.

Take a deep dive into Microsoft Entra privileged identity management

Additional privileged identity management resources

Get started with privileged identity management

Learn about the prerequisites and prepare your privileged identity management deployment.

Deploy privileged identity management

Get step-by-step instructions on how to plan deployment of privileged identity management in your organization.

Configure privileged identity management

Find out about configuring privileged identity management with discovery and insights for Microsoft Entra ID roles.

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