Is your organization rolling out Privileged Identity Management (or PIM)? If you haven't already, you're probably in the same boat as a lot of organizations. Rolling out Privileged Identity Management isn't about another checkbox, it's a shift towards strengthening access, accountability, and agility. With this in mind, I wanted to give you an effective strategy to begin your journey into PIM and provide some insights from my experience. Discovery and Assessment Take stock of the current roles that are active within your tenant already across the applications, from Entra ID itself, to Azure and your Microsoft 365 apps. Once you have your inventory of roles gathered, determine who has access and why - are there any roles that are no longer needed? Is the role necessary if a lesser role can achieve the same task? Check for overprivileged accounts. Identify high-risk roles such as Global Administrator, Exchange Administrator, etc. Identify service principals and applicatio...