CoreView

Over 90% of organizations grant excessive administrative privileges in Microsoft 365, creating a sprawling attack surface that puts your entire digital infrastructure at risk. Microsoft 365 holds the keys to your digital kingdom, but today's privilege model leaves too many doors wide open.

Excessive administrative access across tenants creates risk vectors ripe for human error, insider misuse, and compliance failure. As hybrid work accelerates and insider threats surge by 44% year-over-year, the urgency to enforce least privilege across the Microsoft cloud stack has never been greater.

Emerging technologies and automated policy enforcement now make it possible to implement precision access controls in Microsoft 365 and Entra. By segmenting responsibilities and limiting access to just enough, organizations can dramatically reduce attack surfaces while maintaining productivity.

Functional access models offer a proven path to replace standing privileges with secure, task-specific automation that eliminates human error and reduces blast radius.

Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst at KuppingerCole brings over 15 years of enterprise security analysis to explore the broader implications of privilege mismanagement in the modern enterprise. He discusses how identity-based attacks exploit privilege sprawl, highlight emerging trends in insider threat evolution, and explain why automation and governance must underpin any zero-trust privilege strategy.

Rob Edmondson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at CoreView, and Siam Rochanavichit, Solutions Architect demonstrate practical applications of least privilege principles. They show how to replace privileged access with task-specific automation, virtually segment tenants, remove excessive permissions, build a sustainable privilege management program that scales across complex cloud environments, and provide a hands-on demo of these principles in action.