Microsoft
Overview
About Microsoft#
Microsoft’s enterprise platforms and cloud services—including Active Directory, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Azure, and more—are the backbone of productivity and infrastructure for organizations worldwide. These products support essential business operations and store sensitive data.
Microsoft identity governance challenges#
The breadth and complexity of Microsoft environments can make identity governance especially challenging. Entra ID and Active Directory contain nested groups, privileged admin roles, and hybrid cloud/on-prem directory objects. Azure RBAC introduces fine-grained resource permissions that span subscriptions, resource groups, and services. Microsoft 365 includes entitlements across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams that can result in significant permission sprawl.
Without centralized visibility and automation, identity teams struggle to fully understand who has access to what, detect risky permissions, keep up with lifecycle changes, and maintain compliance with SOX, HIPAA, PCI, ISO, and other regulatory frameworks.
C1 for Microsoft#
C1 connects out of the box to Microsoft identity, cloud, collaboration, and business applications, giving organizations a unified view of users, groups, roles, and permissions across their entire Microsoft environment. The platform normalizes identity and access data into a consistent data model that powers automated provisioning, access reviews, just-in-time access, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement.
Key use cases
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Centralized visibility
Get a unified view of all users, groups, roles, permissions, and other resources across your Microsoft suite in a single platform.
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Lifecycle management
Streamline joiner-mover-leaver processes with automated account and access provisioning, dynamic access controls, flexible no-code workflows that keep up with constant changes in fast-moving Microsoft environments.
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Just‑in‑time access
Reduce standing access to Microsoft admin roles, Azure resource roles, and other privileged entitlements and improve incident response times with automated time‑bound access to any app or entitlement.
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Self-service requests
Guide users to request appropriate Microsoft apps, roles, and permissions with custom access catalogs. Enable frictionless self-service via the C1 web app, MS Teams, Slack, CLI, or your existing helpdesk, and automatically route requests to the right approvers.
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Access reviews
Perform granular, fully automated access reviews of Microsoft users, roles, and permissions. Auto-certify/revoke access based on your policies, provide AI-powered recommendations to human reviewers, and generate audit-ready reports on demand.
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Proactive Separation of Duties (SoD) detection
Track and easily remediate access conflicts across Microsoft apps and services and between Microsoft and non-Microsoft apps, and proactively warn approvers when an access grant will create an SoD violation.
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Governance for Microsoft-based custom applications
Secure and audit access for any custom applications backed by Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL—even those lacking modern APIs. C1’s generic SQL connector is easily configured to extract user and entitlement information from any relational database, without the need to write custom code.
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Choice of connector hosting
Run connectors within C1’s cloud or self-host them inside your network for regulated or restricted Microsoft environments.