Why Privileged Identity Management Falls Short [5 Key PIM Mistakes]

Are your Microsoft 365 Privileged Identity Management (PIM) settings leaving you exposed? Discover the 5 common mistakes that could be putting your organisation at risk-and how to fix them.
In this video, we dive into Microsoft Privileged Identity Management (PIM) to uncover critical misconfigurations that could compromise your security. As a Microsoft Security Partner of the Year, we’ve identified recurring issues, including:
✅ The limitations of MFA settings you might not know.
🔒 Why Conditional Access with Authentication Context is essential.
⚙️ Common misuses of approval processes for role activation.
🛠 The risks of ignoring PIM for groups.
🚨 How to avoid lockouts with break-glass accounts.
Learn actionable tips to reinforce your identity security, prevent token theft, and implement well-architected Conditional Access policies.
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[@patrick__007]

Really helpful! We have planned to implement PIM next week! 🎉

[@st3v3nwh1t3j]

Great content, as per your usual 🙂 I'd add that you can use role-assignable groups to help protect against the last issue discussed about using PIM for groups.

[@patrickhorne3045]

Valid point about the Emergency Access accounts and excluding them not only from CA policies but also making them permanent GA, but why would you make "other administrators" the approvers for privilege roles? In my mind I would make department or team managers the approvers, if you need to elevate to GA, your team lead (who might not be technical themselves) would still want justification and maybe a change number to approve your request but do they need to hold an admin role themselves? or have I missed something?

[@patrick__007]

Configured the Group to be activated by using an Authentication Context. Therefor I've created an Authentication Context in Entra, Conditional Access policy pointed to that Authentication Context, PIM group and force to use 2FA. The result is that while activating the group no 2FA is enforced..