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Understanding identity governance

Understanding identity governance

- [Instructor] Similarly to how we need to be responsible in the way we manage our resources in Azure, our email mailbox and files in Microsoft 365, we also need to be very responsible in how we manage our identities, and that is called applying good governance. Identity governance is the technological aspect of applying good governance to your identities, managing them in a secure and efficient manner, ensuring that when a user has a specific set of permissions, they have only the permissions that they require, and only the permissions that they require for the amount of time that they require those permissions. As well, ensuring that users have access to only the resources that they should have access to is also applying good governance within your Entra ID infrastructure. Microsoft Entra ID provides the identity and access management to all of your resources, but once you provide that identity and access management, you…

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