SecurEnds + Microsoft Entra + Active Directory + PIM

Extend Microsoft identity governance across your entire application estate.

Microsoft Entra, Active Directory, and PIM give you a powerful foundation for identity, authentication, privileged access, and Microsoft-native governance. SecurEnds extends that investment by bringing application-level entitlements, legacy systems, databases, service accounts, non-human identities, and other enterprise access into one review, remediation, and evidence process.

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Already using PIM? Even better. Use PIM to reduce standing privilege and control when elevated Microsoft access can be activated. Use SecurEnds to see that privileged access alongside the rest of the user’s enterprise access—and determine whether it is still needed.
IdentityEntra + AD remain the foundation
PrivilegePIM controls eligible and activated access
Enterprise access1,000+ apps ingested in SecurEnds production
Governance + GRCReview, remediate, prove, and expand
One identity. Four layers of control.
Microsoft + SecurEnds
Complement
1 · Microsoft Entra + AD
Identity · authentication · groups · directory · lifecycle attributes
Identity
2 · Microsoft PIM
Eligibility · JIT activation · approval · expiration · privileged roles
Privilege
3 · SecurEnds Enterprise Access
ERP · SaaS · core · DB · files · APIs · legacy · homegrown
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4 · SecurEnds Governance
Review · usage · revoke · reconcile · evidence · GRC
Govern
Microsoft tells you when privileged access can be activated. SecurEnds helps you decide whether the access should exist across the business at all.
The complementary story

Microsoft controls identity and privilege. SecurEnds governs the complete access picture.

Microsoft already provides strong governance inside its own identity boundary. Entra Access Reviews can review groups, applications, access packages, and privileged roles. PIM can make privileged access eligible, approval-based, time-bound, and reviewable. SecurEnds complements those controls by bringing Microsoft access together with the permissions that live inside business applications, legacy systems, databases, files, service accounts, and other systems across the enterprise.

Microsoft identity & privilege

Keep using Microsoft for the controls it already handles well.

  • Identity, authentication, and SSO
  • Users, groups, and directory relationships
  • Conditional Access and Microsoft security controls
  • PIM eligibility, activation, approval, expiration, and privileged-role reviews
  • Entra-native access reviews for Microsoft-managed access
  • Lifecycle workflows and HR-driven identity events
  • Hybrid identity with on-premises Active Directory
SecurEnds enterprise governance

Extend governance to what the business can actually do.

  • Correlate Entra, AD, HR, and other identities with application accounts
  • Bring application-native entitlements into the review—not just the app assignment
  • Include SaaS, core, legacy, database, file-fed, API, and homegrown systems
  • Add entitlement-usage context through IdentityWatch where supported
  • Track revoke decisions through fulfillment and reconciliation
  • Keep cross-application audit evidence in one repeatable process
  • Extend into NHI, AI identities, Access Governance, and GRC
The gap SecurEnds closes

Entra may know the user has the application. The business still needs to know what they can do inside it.

For many applications, Microsoft can represent the user, the enterprise application assignment, a group, or a privileged role. But the detailed business entitlements—such as payment approval, claims authority, loan funding, customer-data export, vendor maintenance, database write access, or application administration—may still live inside the application itself. SecurEnds brings those entitlements into the same governance process.

Microsoft roles

Include Entra roles, Azure-related access, group relationships, and PIM context as part of the broader access picture.

AD groups

Bring on-premises groups and access relationships into the same business-review process.

Application-native roles

Review the detailed permissions that live inside ERP, banking, healthcare, SaaS, and other business systems.

Legacy & core systems

Use supported database, file/SFTP, API, connector, and other ingestion methods where the entitlement is not represented in Entra.

Direct access

Identify permissions granted directly in the application rather than inherited from a Microsoft group or enterprise-app assignment.

Service accounts & NHI

Assign ownership and review access for service accounts and non-human identities alongside human access.

Usage context

Add evidence about whether supported Entra entitlements are being exercised, dormant, or potentially unnecessary.

GRC evidence

Connect identity evidence to IT risk, vendor risk, policies, controls, findings, and remediation.

A practical operating model

Use PIM to control activation. Use SecurEnds to govern necessity.

PIM reduces standing privilege by controlling when eligible users can activate privileged Microsoft access. SecurEnds adds the broader governance question: should this person still be eligible for that privilege when you consider the rest of their enterprise access, role, usage, and business responsibilities?

01 · Identity

Entra + AD

The person, groups, roles, lifecycle state, and hybrid identity remain in Microsoft.

02 · Privilege

Microsoft PIM

Make selected privilege eligible, approval-based, time-bound, and activatable only when needed.

03 · See Everything

SecurEnds

Correlate Microsoft access with business-application, legacy, direct, service-account, and other entitlements.

04 · Decide

Business Review

Review privilege and application access in business context, with usage evidence where available.

05 · Prove

Remediate & Reconcile

Remove what is no longer justified and retain the decision, action, reconciliation, and evidence.

Where the combination creates value

PIM answers “when can I use privilege?” SecurEnds adds “should I still have it?”

Eligible but never activated

A user may remain PIM-eligible for a privileged role they never actually use. IdentityWatch usage context can help make the next certification more evidence-based.

Microsoft privilege + business-system authority

A user may have an Entra privileged role plus payment, finance, database, or application-administration authority elsewhere. SecurEnds lets reviewers see the broader combination.

Application assigned ≠ entitlement understood

Entra may show that a user can access an enterprise application. SecurEnds can bring the application-native roles and permissions into the review where those entitlements live outside Entra.

Role change

When a person changes jobs, Microsoft can update identity and lifecycle state. SecurEnds can challenge stale application access across the systems that remain outside automated Microsoft control.

Termination

Disabling a Microsoft identity is important. Reconciliation across downstream applications helps prove that direct, local, legacy, and non-Microsoft access was also removed.

Audit and GRC

Take the combined access decision beyond the identity team and use the evidence within IT risk, vendor risk, policy, control, findings, and remediation programs.

The SecurEnds + Microsoft story

Microsoft controls identity and privilege. SecurEnds governs the complete access picture.

Use Entra, AD, Conditional Access, PIM, and Microsoft-native governance where they fit. Add SecurEnds when the review needs to cross Microsoft boundaries and include the application-native permissions, usage, remediation, evidence, and GRC work the business owns.

Keep Microsoft native controls

Do not replace PIM or Entra governance where Microsoft already does the job well.

Extend to the enterprise

Bring Microsoft access together with application-native, legacy, database, service-account, and other entitlements.

Decide with more context

Combine granted access, PIM eligibility, entitlement usage, application roles, business context, remediation, and evidence.

A simple evaluation

Show us the access Microsoft governs—and the permissions that still live outside it.

Bring Entra, AD, PIM, and a handful of applications where the meaningful business roles live inside the application. The value becomes clear when the same person’s Microsoft privilege and business-system authority can be reviewed together.

1

Connect Entra + AD

Bring Microsoft users, groups, roles, directory context, and relevant identity attributes into the governance view.

2

Include PIM context

Review eligible and privileged access alongside the rest of the user’s enterprise access where supported by the implementation.

3

Add hard applications

Bring the ERP, core, legacy, DB, file-fed, SaaS, and homegrown systems where detailed entitlements live outside Microsoft.

4

Make one decision

See privilege, application access, usage context, remediation, reconciliation, and evidence in one governance process.

SecurEnds + Microsoft

Keep Entra. Keep AD. Keep PIM. Extend the governance.

Show us your Microsoft identity environment and the applications where business-critical permissions still live outside the directory. We’ll map how Microsoft controls identity and privilege—and where SecurEnds adds enterprise-wide review, usage context, remediation, evidence, and GRC.

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