Privileged Identity Management
Just-in-time activation for admin roles. Approval workflows. Time-bound access. No more permanent Global Admins sitting in your tenant.
Permanent Admin Roles Are the First Target
Most mid-market M365 tenants have 5–15 permanent admin role assignments — often more. Every permanent Global Admin, Exchange Admin, or SharePoint Admin is a live key to the entire environment. One phished credential, one insider incident, and the attacker owns the tenant.
This is not a failure of your IT team. When the tenant was set up, permanent assignments were the default. PIM was not licensed, or the configuration looked complex. Meanwhile, the audit flags it, the cyber insurer asks about it, and compliance frameworks require just-in-time access.
Traditional consulting for a PIM rollout? Two months, five figures. The consultant configures the settings, writes a document, leaves. Your team is left with a process they did not design.
ACTIVITIES IN DETAIL
DELIVERABLES
Capture the current state and prepare the implementation: administrative accounts, licenses, goals, stakeholders, risk analysis, cleanup of stale assignments, logging baseline
Define activation and approval processes for every relevant role: max activation duration, MFA on activation, approval required, justification text
Work out the assignment and review process: who nominates, who approves, how access reviews run and who certifies them
Validate Break Glass accounts, service accounts, and their integration into the PIM target state — excluded where required, protected where not
Create communication material for the people groups affected by PIM: eligible admins, approvers, access reviewers
Configure Privileged Identity Management for the defined Entra ID roles — including Access Review configuration per role
Migrate existing permanent assignments into the PIM target state — tier by tier, with a validation window
Validate Conditional Access policies against the PIM target state: enforce MFA, compliant device, and sign-in frequency on role activation
Next steps after Privileged Identity Management
A cleanly configured tenant is the foundation. These blueprints build directly on it
