Microsoft has made some bold acquisitions and recently launched Microsoft Entra with a few new offerings in Azure. Notably, the acquisition of CloudKnox has been integrated with Permissions Management if you recall permissions in IAM can really make or break access that can be overlooked by those who don’t understand permissions.
But what happens when you expand your identities into multi-cloud by either acquisition or your development team wants to utilize other services in another CSP?
Things can get complex quickly if you don’t strategize the movement across multiple cloud service providers and the answer at least from a detective standpoint is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM).
If you’re in Azure already you’ll likely utilize Azure AD for various reasons and you can try out the new portal which is shown below.
But what if you want to try this solution before you pay? Of course, Microsoft has thought of this with this link you can try it out for 90-days.
aka.ms/TryPermissionsManagement
If your focus at the moment isn’t the identity vector you’re likely missing out on integral part of understanding your cloud architecture. While solutions are growing in this space good governance and assistance in management is needed and it’s likely CIEM could be the solution for multi-cloud privilege creep, as the need for business expands you’re identity posture/management should shift and be consistently audited.