What is Azure Privileged Identity Management?
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Tags: Azure CloudAzure Privileged Identity Management
Answer
Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is a service in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization.
These resources include resources in
- Azure AD,
- Azure,
- and other Microsoft Online Services such as Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune.
What does PIM do?
- Provide just-in-time privileged access to Azure AD and Azure resources
- Assign time-bound access to resources using start and end dates
- Require approval to activate privileged roles
- Enforce multi-factor authentication to activate any role
- Use justification to understand why users activate
- Get notifications when privileged roles are activated
- Conduct access reviews to ensure users still need roles
- Download audit history for internal or external audit
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