Microsoft has released the general availability of Permissions Management for Microsoft Entra, a new standalone solution designed to allow organizations to discover, remediate and monitor permissions for all identities and resources across multicloud environments.
According to the company, Microsoft Entra Permissions Management allows admins to enforce the principle of least privilege at cloud scale using historical data to help the organization improve its security posture without impacting productivity.
The release comes after Microsoft acquired cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) company CloudKnox Security last summer, and a public preview of the solution was released in February.
The general availability release comes with a new automated approach to onboard AWS, Azure and Google Cloud environments into Permissions management, including a new simplified workflow to collect permissions data across clouds at scale, Microsoft says.
Admins can use Microsoft Entra Permissions Management to gain greater visibility into every action performed by every identity on every resource, assess permission risk and monitor permissions granted and used.
After identifying the permissions gap, admins can close it by enforcing the principle of least privilege based on actual usage via the permission on-demand workflow when additional permissions are needed.
Microsoft Entra Permissions also allows admins to monitor all activity to detect anomalous permission usage and generate forensic reports to support investigators and respond to the attack.
Microsoft says it is actively expanding the integrations and features of Entra Permissions Management, and will be rolling them out later this year. To start, users can now monitor their Permission Creep Index and access Permissions Management directly from the Defender for Cloud dashboard, essentially extending Defender for Cloud’s protection with CIEM.
To kick off the release, Microsoft is offering a free 90-day trial so users can run a risk assessment and identify their permission risks across their multicloud infrastructure.
“Within a few hours of onboarding, Permissions Management will generate a comprehensive Permissions Analytics Report to identify your organization’s areas of greatest risk, with actionable insights to begin remediation and secure your environment,” Microsoft says in a Tech Community blog.
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