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> **Original source:** https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-access/microsoft-entra-id-governance?utm_source=openai

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OVERVIEW

## Enhance productivity and security

Identity governance increases employee productivity and helps meet compliance and regulatory requirements.

-   Automate employee, supplier, and business partner access to apps and services—in the cloud and on- premises—at enterprise scale. Help ensure that people have access when they require it—without the burden of manual approvals.
    
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-   Reduce risk arising from access abuse and make smart access decisions based on machine learning. Set up requirements for recurring reviews to ensure continuing need for users, group memberships, and access.
    
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-   Streamline deployment and operation with a cloud-based product. Support both cloud and on-premises apps. Integrate Microsoft apps plus hundreds of non-Microsoft apps with ease.
    
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-   Delegate day-to-day resource access requests to relevant business groups and automate the approval process for customary resource access to help you focus on AI-provided insights and exceptions.
    
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Scenarios

## Identity governance for employees and partners

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### Automate the entire employee identity lifecycle

Design workflows to automatically create an identity via a signal from an HR system. Gracefully remove access when the employee leaves the organization.

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### Assign employee access to resources

Automatically assign app and resource access based on employee group memberships. Ensure that conflicting access (with app administrators and app users, for example) can’t occur with separation of duties. Delegate access decisions to business groups.

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### Allow guest and partner access to resources

Enable business groups to allow access to partners, suppliers, and guests securely via the same robust entitlement management and access review capabilities that employees use—with the same exception handling and rich reporting.

How It Works

## Control identities and access

Automatically create user identities and roles in the apps users need to access, and maintain and remove user identities as status or roles change.

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Capabilities

## Microsoft Entra ID Governance capabilities

Get robust identity governance and simple deployment with Microsoft Entra ID Governance.

Manage the identity and resource access lifecycle at scale, by automating access request workflows, access assignments, reviews, and expiration.

Entitlement management

    

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PLANS AND PRICING

## Flexible pricing options

### Microsoft Entra Suite

$12.00

user/month, paid yearly

(annual commitment)

#### Microsoft Entra ID Governance is included in the Microsoft Entra Suite.

-   Unify conditional access 
-   Ensure least privilege access
-   Improve the user experience
-   Modernize your on-premises infrastructure

The Microsoft Entra Suite delivers unified Zero Trust user access, enabling your employees to securely access any cloud and on-premises application with least privilege access across public and private networks inside and outside your corporate perimeter. The Microsoft Entra Suite combines network access, identity protection, governance, and identity verification solutions.

Related products

## Explore Microsoft Entra

Secure access for any identity to any AI or resource.

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### Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra

Discover the security benefits of generative AI-powered assistance.

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### Microsoft Entra ID

Protect identities and manage access to apps, devices, and data.

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### Microsoft Entra Agent ID Preview

Secure access for AI agent identities.

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INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

## Recognition and research by top industry research firms

-   ### Executive View Microsoft Entra ID Governance
    
    KuppingerCole reviewed Microsoft Entra ID Governance. Among their findings was a “strong set of APIs and good workflow support based on Microsoft Logic Apps.”
    
-   ### Leadership Compass for Access Management
    
    KuppingerCole has rated Microsoft as an Overall Leader, Market Leader, Innovation Leader, and Product Leader in the 2023 Leadership Compass for Access Management.
    

RESOURCES

## Documentation and training

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### 5 ways to secure identity and access in the age of AI

Help your organization be better prepared for the opportunities and challenges ahead by adopting a comprehensive defense-in-depth strategy that spans identity, endpoint, and network.

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### Lifecycle management documentation

See how lifecycle management works in Microsoft Entra ID.

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### Apps that work with Microsoft Entra ID  

Find all apps for which Microsoft Entra ID supports pre-integrated provisioning connectors, then learn how to configure them.

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### Lifecycle and provisioning concepts

Get an overview of lifecycle and provisioning processes.

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### Deployment partners

Find partners to help with planning and deployment.

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