At a time when security breaches seem to be an everyday occurrence, it’s become more and more important to protect resources with more than just a username and password. It’s even more important to protect resources from INTERNAL threats. By implementing Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, organizations can protect their resources with improved security features, and even keep an eye on what legitimate administrators are doing.
In this course, you’ll learn how to implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management. We’ll start the course by touching on an overview of what Azure AD Privileged Identity Management is and what it offers. We will then work through the deployment of PIM and how it works with multi-factor authentication. As we work through some demos, you will learn how to enable PIM and how to navigate tasks in PIM.
We’ll then cover the activation of roles and the assignment of those roles, including permanent roles and just-in-time roles. We’ll also cover the concepts of updating and removing role assignments, reinforcing these concepts through demonstrations.
We’ll round out the course with supported management scenarios, configuring PIM management access, and how to process requests.
Learning Objectives
- Enable PIM
- Activate a PIM role
- Configure just-in-time resource access
- Configure permanent access to resources
- Configure PIM management access
- Configure time-bound resource access
- Create a Delegated Approver account
- Process pending approval requests
Intended Audience
- People who want to become Azure cloud architects
- People who are preparing to take Microsoft’s AZ-101 exam
Prerequisites
- Moderate knowledge of Azure Active Directory
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To protect resources with PIM, you first need to discover them. To do so, sign into the Azure portal and open the Azure AD Privileged Identity Management dashboard. From here, click Azure resources. Now if this is the first time you're using PIM to manage Azure resources, you'll see a discover resources pane. However, if another resource or directory admin in your organization has already started managing Azure resources in PIM, you'll see a list of the resources that are currently being managed by PIM. Click Discover resources to launch the discovery experience. Add a check mark next to any unmanaged resources you want to manage. To begin managing the resource, simply click Manage resource. One thing to note is that once a management group or subscription has been set to managed, it can no longer be unmanaged. This is in place to prevent another resource admin from removing PIM settings for it.
Tom is a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry, having worked in environments as large as 40k seats and as small as 50 seats. Throughout the course of a long an interesting career, he has built an in-depth skillset that spans numerous IT disciplines. Tom has designed and architected small, large, and global IT solutions.
In addition to the Cloud Platform and Infrastructure MCSE certification, Tom also carries several other Microsoft certifications. His ability to see things from a strategic perspective allows Tom to architect solutions that closely align with business needs.
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