Microsoft Entra ID Governance
GovernanceIdentity Governance Use Cases
In brief
The use-case documentation now includes governing agent identities and their access rights, alongside employee, guest, partner, and application governance.
What Entra admins need to know
No administrator action is stated; administrators can include agent identities in identity governance planning.
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Here are typical identity governance use cases:
Govern the employee, guest and partner lifecycle - Governing the employee identity lifecycle
orwith Identity lifecycle management is the foundation for Identity Governance, and effective governance at scale requires modernizing the identity lifecycle management infrastructure for applications. Similar processes are also needed for additional identities, for partners, suppliers and other guests, to enable them to collaborate or have access to resources.Govern access to applications -
-Organizations need a process to manage access beyond what was initially provisioned for a user when that user's identity was created. Furthermore, enterprise organizations need to be able to scale efficiently to be able to develop and enforce access policy and controls on an ongoing basis.AnGovern agent identities and access - With the addition of the Microsoft agent identity platform, managing the access rights of agents in the same way as employees and business guests is just as important in the governance lifecycle of your organization's
controls for managingidentities. You can use governance processes to ensure the agents have a responsible person providing oversight throughout the agent lifecycle, and agent's accessspecific to applications.does not persist longer than it is needed.
These use cases demonstrate the breadth and importance of identity governance in maintaining security, compliance, and efficient user management within organizations.
@@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ Microsoft Entra ID Governance allows you to balance your organization's need for Here are typical identity governance use cases: -- **[Govern the employee, guest and partner lifecycle](govern-the-employee-lifecycle.md)** - Governing the employee lifecycle or **Identity lifecycle management** is the foundation for Identity Governance, and effective governance at scale requires modernizing the identity lifecycle management infrastructure for applications. Similar processes are also needed for additional identities, for partners, suppliers and other guests, to enable them to collaborate or have access to resources. +- **[Govern the employee, guest and partner lifecycle](govern-the-employee-lifecycle.md)** - Governing the employee identity lifecycle with **Identity lifecycle management** is the foundation for Identity Governance, and effective governance at scale requires modernizing the identity lifecycle management infrastructure for applications. Similar processes are also needed for additional identities, for partners, suppliers and other guests, to enable them to collaborate or have access to resources. -- **[Govern access to applications](../identity-governance-applications-prepare.md)** - - Organizations need a process to manage access beyond what was initially provisioned for a user when that user's identity was created. Furthermore, enterprise organizations need to be able to scale efficiently to be able to develop and enforce access policy and controls on an ongoing basis. An organization's controls for managing access specific to applications.+- **[Govern access to applications](../identity-governance-applications-prepare.md)** - Organizations need a process to manage access beyond what was initially provisioned for a user when that user's identity was created. Furthermore, enterprise organizations need to be able to scale efficiently to be able to develop and enforce access policy and controls on an ongoing basis. ++- **[Govern agent identities and access](../agent-id-governance-overview.md)** - With the addition of the Microsoft agent identity platform, managing the access rights of agents in the same way as employees and business guests is just as important in the governance lifecycle of your organization's identities. You can use governance processes to ensure the agents have a responsible person providing oversight throughout the agent lifecycle, and agent's access does not persist longer than it is needed. These use cases demonstrate the breadth and importance of identity governance in maintaining security, compliance, and efficient user management within organizations.