Identity governance and administration
Identity governance and administration is the discipline of governing identity lifecycles, entitlements, access requests, approvals, and access reviews.
Azure Security
The management of identities, approvals, access assignments, and related operational processes.
- How it is used
- Governs changing identity access through administration, auditing, privileged-access reduction, and recurring reviews.
- How deep it goes
- Defines governance as administration plus auditing, then details portal-based access-review scheduling, scope, reviewers, and completion settings.
- Examples
- Walks through creating an Azure portal access review for privileged Azure resource roles within a subscription.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure recurring access reviews with reviewers, scoped identities and roles, schedules, and automatic removal for denied access.
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Authorization in Action
Identity Governance and Administration is the discipline and set of capabilities for governing identity life cycles, entitlements, access requests, approvals, and access certifications.
- How it is used
- Governs identity life cycles, entitlement assignments, access approvals, certifications, and the authoritative inputs used by authorization.
- How deep it goes
- Explains workflows, certifications, feedback from runtime decisions, and coordination with policy governance, but stops short of implementation syntax.
- Examples
- Uses joiner–mover–leaver workflows, group memberships, periodic reviews, and contractor collaborator entitlements as concrete examples.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure identity workflows, manage entitlements, conduct certifications, and coordinate remediation with authorization policy.
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Related concepts
- entitlement managementhas part · A Microsoft Entra capability that automates lifecycle-based access to groups, applications, teams, and SharePoint sites.
- identitypart of · Identity is the property or representation by which an entity is distinguished and recognized as that particular entity.
- governancecontrasts with · Governance is the system of policies, roles, decision rights, processes, controls, and oversight through which an organization, system, or activity is directed and held accountable.
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