What feature of privileged identity management allows you to define extended permissions for a user over a limited period?

Note Users or members of a group assigned to the Owner or User Access Administrator subscription roles, and Azure AD Global administrators that enable subscription management in Azure AD have Resource administrator permissions by default. These administrators can assign roles, configure role settings, and review access using Privileged Identity Management for Azure resources. A user can't manage Privileged Identity Management for Resources without Resource administrator permissions. View the list of Privileged Identity Management support both built-in and custom Azure roles. For more information on Azure custom roles, see Role assignment conditions You can use the Azure attribute-based access control (Azure ABAC) to add conditions on eligible role assignments using Azure AD PIM for Azure resources. With Azure AD PIM, your end users must activate an eligible role assignment to get permission to perform certain actions. Using conditions in Azure AD PIM enables you not only to limit a user's role permissions to a resource using fine-grained conditions, but also to use Azure AD PIM to secure the role assignment with a time-bound setting, approval workflow, audit trail, and so on. Note When a role is assigned, the assignment: • Can't be assigned for a duration of less than five minutes • Can't be removed within five minutes of it being assigned Currently, the following built-in roles can have conditions added: • • • For more information, see Assign a role Follow these steps to ...

Note This capability is available as an Intune add-on. For more information, see Microsoft Intune Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) allows your organization’s users to run as a standard user (without administrator rights) and complete tasks that require elevated privileges. Tasks that commonly require administrative privileges are application installs (like Microsoft 365 Applications), updating device drivers, and running certain Windows diagnostics. Endpoint Privilege Management supports your The following sections of this article discuss requirements to use EPM, provide a functional overview of how this capability works, and introduce important concepts for EPM. Applies to: • Windows 10 • Windows 11 Prerequisites Licensing Endpoint Privilege Management requires an additional license beyond the Microsoft Intune Plan 1 license. You can choose between an stand-alone license that adds only EPM, or license EPM as part of the Microsoft Intune Suite. For more information, see Windows Client requirements Endpoint Privilege Management has the following operating system requirements: • Windows 11, version 22H2 (22621.1344 or later) with • Windows 11, version 21H2 (22000.1761 or later) with • Windows 10, version 22H2 (19045.2788 or later) with • Windows 10, version 21H2 (19044.2788 or later) with • Windows 10, version 20H2 (19042.2788 or later) with Important Elevation settings policy will show as not applicable if a device is not at the minimum version specified above. Endpoint ...

If you’re new to Azure Active Directory and Identity and Access Management (IAM), you’ll quickly realize that there are a lot of roles to keep straight. This introduction should help, while also laying the groundwork for my future blog posts on Orca’s research into privilege escalation methods on Microsoft Azure. If you’re already familiar with how Active Directory and IAM work on Azure, then you can review areas you need to freshen up on by jumping to the various sections using the following links: The difference between Azure AD and IAM According to Microsoft documentation, Azure AD is an identity management service, and IAM is used for access control. This means that Azure AD is responsible for authentication, and Azure IAM is responsible for authorization. We will delve deeper into both of these technologies to properly understand them. But first, let’s take a quick glance at the Azure resource hierarchy terminology: Tenant Root Group– The top-level management group, which contains all the other management groups and subscriptions in the environment. Management Groups– Containers that organize subscriptions for better management capabilities, such as policies. Subscriptions– As the name suggests, a subscription is the billing unit in Azure. Subscriptions contain resource groups and resources and must be connected to a credit card. Resource Groups– Logical units for resource management. Resources share their lifecycle with the Resource Group. Resources– Virtual machines...

You manage access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them to IAM identities (users, groups of users, or roles) or AWS resources. A policy is an object in AWS that, when associated with an identity or resource, defines their permissions. AWS evaluates these policies when an IAM principal (user or role) makes a request. Permissions in the policies determine whether the request is allowed or denied. Most policies are stored in AWS as JSON documents. AWS supports six types of policies: identity-based policies, resource-based policies, permissions boundaries, Organizations SCPs, ACLs, and session policies. IAM policies define permissions for an action regardless of the method that you use to perform the operation. For example, if a policy allows the Policy types The following policy types, listed in order from most frequently used to less frequently used, are available for use in AWS. For more details, see the sections below for each policy type. • AWS managed policies – Managed policies that are created and managed by AWS. • Customer managed policies – Managed policies that you create and manage in your AWS account. Customer managed policies provide more precise control over your policies than AWS managed policies. • Inline policies – Policies that you add directly to a single user, group, or role. Inline policies maintain a strict one-to-one relationship between a policy and an identity. They are deleted when you delete the identity. To learn how to choose between mana...

In this article Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides a time-based and approval-based role activation to mitigate the risks of excessive, unnecessary, or misused access permissions to important resources. These resources include resources in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Azure, and other Microsoft Online Services such as Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune. PIM enables you to allow a specific set of actions at a particular scope. Key features include: • Provide just-in-time privileged access to resources • Assign eligibility for membership or ownership of PIM for Groups • Assign time-bound access to resources using start and end dates • Require approval to activate privileged roles • Enforce multifactor 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 To gain the most from this deployment plan, it’s important that you get a complete overview of Understand PIM The PIM concepts in this section will help you understand your organization’s privileged identity requirements. What can you manage in PIM Today, you can use PIM with: • Azure AD roles – Sometimes referred to as directory roles, Azure AD roles include built-in and custom roles to manage Azure AD and other Microsoft 365 online services. • Azure roles – The role-based access control (RBAC) roles in Azur...

In this article The security of business assets depends on the integrity of the privileged accounts that administer your IT systems. Cyber-attackers use credential theft attacks to target administrator accounts and other privileged access to try to gain access to sensitive data. For cloud services, prevention and response are the joint responsibilities of the cloud service provider and the customer. For more information about the latest threats to endpoints and the cloud, see the Note Microsoft is committed to the highest levels of trust, transparency, standards conformance, and regulatory compliance. Learn more about how the Microsoft global incident response team mitigates the effects of attacks against cloud services, and how security is built into Microsoft business products and cloud services at Traditionally, organizational security was focused on the entry and exit points of a network as the security perimeter. However, SaaS apps and personal devices on the Internet have made this approach less effective. In Azure AD, we replace the network security perimeter with authentication in your organization's identity layer, with users assigned to privileged administrative roles in control. Their access must be protected, whether the environment is on-premises, cloud, or a hybrid. Securing privileged access requires changes to: • Processes, administrative practices, and knowledge management • Technical components such as host defenses, account protections, and identity mana...

In this article The security of business assets depends on the integrity of the privileged accounts that administer your IT systems. Cyber-attackers use credential theft attacks to target administrator accounts and other privileged access to try to gain access to sensitive data. For cloud services, prevention and response are the joint responsibilities of the cloud service provider and the customer. For more information about the latest threats to endpoints and the cloud, see the Note Microsoft is committed to the highest levels of trust, transparency, standards conformance, and regulatory compliance. Learn more about how the Microsoft global incident response team mitigates the effects of attacks against cloud services, and how security is built into Microsoft business products and cloud services at Traditionally, organizational security was focused on the entry and exit points of a network as the security perimeter. However, SaaS apps and personal devices on the Internet have made this approach less effective. In Azure AD, we replace the network security perimeter with authentication in your organization's identity layer, with users assigned to privileged administrative roles in control. Their access must be protected, whether the environment is on-premises, cloud, or a hybrid. Securing privileged access requires changes to: • Processes, administrative practices, and knowledge management • Technical components such as host defenses, account protections, and identity mana...

In this article Privileged Identity Management (PIM) provides a time-based and approval-based role activation to mitigate the risks of excessive, unnecessary, or misused access permissions to important resources. These resources include resources in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Azure, and other Microsoft Online Services such as Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Intune. PIM enables you to allow a specific set of actions at a particular scope. Key features include: • Provide just-in-time privileged access to resources • Assign eligibility for membership or ownership of PIM for Groups • Assign time-bound access to resources using start and end dates • Require approval to activate privileged roles • Enforce multifactor 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 To gain the most from this deployment plan, it’s important that you get a complete overview of Understand PIM The PIM concepts in this section will help you understand your organization’s privileged identity requirements. What can you manage in PIM Today, you can use PIM with: • Azure AD roles – Sometimes referred to as directory roles, Azure AD roles include built-in and custom roles to manage Azure AD and other Microsoft 365 online services. • Azure roles – The role-based access control (RBAC) roles in Azur...

Note This capability is available as an Intune add-on. For more information, see Microsoft Intune Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) allows your organization’s users to run as a standard user (without administrator rights) and complete tasks that require elevated privileges. Tasks that commonly require administrative privileges are application installs (like Microsoft 365 Applications), updating device drivers, and running certain Windows diagnostics. Endpoint Privilege Management supports your The following sections of this article discuss requirements to use EPM, provide a functional overview of how this capability works, and introduce important concepts for EPM. Applies to: • Windows 10 • Windows 11 Prerequisites Licensing Endpoint Privilege Management requires an additional license beyond the Microsoft Intune Plan 1 license. You can choose between an stand-alone license that adds only EPM, or license EPM as part of the Microsoft Intune Suite. For more information, see Windows Client requirements Endpoint Privilege Management has the following operating system requirements: • Windows 11, version 22H2 (22621.1344 or later) with • Windows 11, version 21H2 (22000.1761 or later) with • Windows 10, version 22H2 (19045.2788 or later) with • Windows 10, version 21H2 (19044.2788 or later) with • Windows 10, version 20H2 (19042.2788 or later) with Important Elevation settings policy will show as not applicable if a device is not at the minimum version specified above. Endpoint ...

You manage access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them to IAM identities (users, groups of users, or roles) or AWS resources. A policy is an object in AWS that, when associated with an identity or resource, defines their permissions. AWS evaluates these policies when an IAM principal (user or role) makes a request. Permissions in the policies determine whether the request is allowed or denied. Most policies are stored in AWS as JSON documents. AWS supports six types of policies: identity-based policies, resource-based policies, permissions boundaries, Organizations SCPs, ACLs, and session policies. IAM policies define permissions for an action regardless of the method that you use to perform the operation. For example, if a policy allows the Policy types The following policy types, listed in order from most frequently used to less frequently used, are available for use in AWS. For more details, see the sections below for each policy type. • AWS managed policies – Managed policies that are created and managed by AWS. • Customer managed policies – Managed policies that you create and manage in your AWS account. Customer managed policies provide more precise control over your policies than AWS managed policies. • Inline policies – Policies that you add directly to a single user, group, or role. Inline policies maintain a strict one-to-one relationship between a policy and an identity. They are deleted when you delete the identity. To learn how to choose between mana...