Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is now Microsoft Entra ID.
Discover, restrict, and monitor access rights
Ensure your admin accounts stay secure by limiting access to critical operations with privileged identity management (PIM) solutions.
Meet the new Conditional Access Optimization Agent
Now generally available, discover how the new CA Optimization Agent in Microsoft Entra helps you close security gaps faster — and keep protection up to date, every day.
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 least-privilege access
Use just-in-time privileged access
Discover and monitor access
Take a deep dive into Microsoft Entra privileged identity management
“See how Microsoft uses privileged identity management to manage elevated access for users who have privileged roles."
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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