Privileged roles
Review Microsoft Entra role assignments, standing access, role scope, Global Administrator exposure, emergency access accounts, and Privileged Identity Management where licensed.
Specialist assessment · Microsoft Entra ID
Understand which identities, privileges, and application paths deserve attention first.
A focused Microsoft Entra ID security assessment for organizations that need defensible evidence about identity control—not another unprioritized settings export.
Technical scope
Identity controls reviewed in the context of how your tenant operates.
Final applicability depends on tenant architecture, license level, identity sources, enabled services, administrative model, and the business populations included in scope.
Authentication methods
Assess registration, method policy, Microsoft Authenticator, passkeys (FIDO2), Temporary Access Pass, legacy methods, and phishing-resistant authentication readiness.
Identity lifecycle
Review joiner, mover, and leaver controls; dormant accounts; ownership; access reviews where licensed; and operational evidence for periodic review.
Guests and external identities
Evaluate guest inventory, invitation and collaboration settings, sponsor or owner accountability, cross-tenant access dependencies, and review practices.
Applications and consent
Review enterprise applications, app registrations, service principals, credentials, delegated and application permissions, user consent settings, and admin-consent governance.
Identity risk and audit
Review risky users, risky sign-ins, Identity Protection policies, sign-in evidence, audit coverage, monitoring, and response ownership where Microsoft Entra ID P2 capabilities apply.
Questions this assessment can answer
Move from identity inventory to control decisions.
Who can materially change the tenant?
Identify privileged paths, broad assignments, emergency dependencies, and application identities whose reach requires stronger governance.
Can strong authentication be enforced safely?
Understand method readiness, population coverage, exclusions, recovery dependencies, and sequencing before raising authentication requirements.
Where does access outlive its purpose?
Find guest, employee, role, and application access that lacks a current owner, business need, review record, or reliable removal path.
Assessment process
A controlled review from scope to decision.
Map the identity model
Confirm tenant relationships, identity sources, administrative tiers, workforce and guest populations, applications, licenses, and known exceptions.
Review agreed evidence
Collect role, authentication, application, consent, lifecycle, sign-in, and audit evidence using documented read-only methods where supported.
Resolve ownership and context
Confirm whether broad access, exclusions, persistent credentials, or incomplete lifecycle evidence has an accepted and accountable purpose.
Sequence identity work
Separate urgent privilege or authentication issues from planned governance improvements and longer-term architecture decisions.
Deliverables
An identity action register tied to evidence.
- Identity and privileged-access executive summary
- Technical findings across roles, authentication, lifecycle, guests, applications, and consent
- Privileged-role and application-permission review priorities
- Authentication-method and phishing-resistant MFA readiness observations
- Prioritized remediation and validation plan with accountable owners
Boundaries
Clear scope protects the quality of the answer.
- Microsoft Entra ID P1, P2, and Governance features only where licensed and in scope
- No password collection, credential testing, or attempted account compromise
- No production role, authentication, consent, or policy changes during assessment
- Hybrid identity infrastructure is included only to the depth agreed in scope
- A configuration assessment is not a guarantee against identity compromise
Frequently asked questions
Questions to resolve before the work begins.
Is this Microsoft Entra ID assessment a penetration test?
No. It is a configuration and control assessment. It reviews agreed evidence about identity, authentication, privilege, applications, guest access, and operations; it does not attempt to compromise accounts or bypass controls.
Which Microsoft Entra licenses are required?
The assessment is scoped to the licenses and features you use. Microsoft Entra ID P1, P2, and Microsoft Entra ID Governance capabilities are reviewed only where licensed, configured, and relevant.
Will TenantShield change roles, authentication methods, or policies?
Not during the assessment. The engagement records evidence, validates findings, and recommends actions. Any implementation is separately scoped, approved, and tested.
Does the review include Conditional Access?
Identity dependencies and material policy interactions can be included. Choose the dedicated Conditional Access assessment when policy design, exclusions, authentication strengths, or rollout assurance need deeper treatment.
Related services and evidence
Continue with the level of review that fits the question.
Conditional Access Assessment
Go deeper on policy architecture, exclusions, grant controls, authentication strengths, and deployment safety.
Microsoft 365 Security Audit
Expand the evidence review across messaging, collaboration, endpoint, applications, and security operations.
Administrator role audit guide
Use the practical role-assignment, scope, activity, ownership, and protection workflow before making access changes.
Sample assessment
See how evidence, business risk, recommended action, and validation are connected in the deliverable.
Start with the decision your team needs to make.
Share the business trigger, relevant Microsoft 365 licensing, approximate environment size, and decision deadline. No credentials or tenant exports are needed for the first conversation.