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Enhance security by automating role compliance checks

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Business value

The security roles risk assessment tool enhances your business security by ensuring compliance with baseline policies. It automates risk detection, flags noncompliant roles, and provides options for role owners to adjust privileges or request custom profiles. This proactive approach safeguards sensitive data, reduces vulnerabilities, and ensures regulatory compliance, ultimately strengthening your business's security posture and operational efficiency.

Impact on your business:

  • Enhanced security: Automating compliance checks and flagging noncompliant roles helps your business prevent unauthorized access and potential breaches.
  • Operational efficiency: Reduces the need for manual role audits, allowing your IT team to focus on strategic initiatives.
  • Regulatory compliance: Helps ensure your organization meets industry regulations and standards, reducing the risk of noncompliance penalties.
  • Tailored security: Custom profiles allow for flexible security management, meeting unique business needs while maintaining robust protection.

Implementing the security roles risk assessment tool in your organization ensures that security is continuously monitored, risks are swiftly addressed, and your data remains secure, providing peace of mind and a strong foundation for your business operations.

Feature details

The security roles risk assessment tool is designed to elevate your business security and compliance standards. This feature automatically scans all security roles within Microsoft Dataverse, comparing each role's privileges against predefined baseline access levels. Noncompliant roles are promptly flagged, ensuring no potential security risks go unnoticed.

Key features and benefits:

  • Automated scanning:

    • Feature: Event-driven automated scans of all security roles.
    • Benefit: Continuous monitoring ensures real-time identification of noncompliance, reducing manual oversight and improving efficiency.

  • Noncompliance flagging:

    • Feature: Automatic flagging of roles that do not meet baseline policies.
    • Benefit: Immediate awareness of security risks allows for prompt action, mitigating potential threats quickly.

  • Role owner empowerment:

    • Feature: Notifications to role owners with options to adjust privileges, request exceptions, or create custom profiles.
    • Benefit: Empowers your team to proactively address compliance issues, tailoring security to meet specific business needs while maintaining control.

  • Custom risk assessment settings profiles:

    • Feature: Ability for role owners to create and submit custom profiles.
    • Benefit: Flexibility to accommodate unique business requirements without compromising security, with admin oversight to ensure adherence to policies.

  • Admin review and approval facilitation:

    • Feature: Environment admins review and approve or reject requests.
    • Benefit: Maintains a high security standard by ensuring all changes undergo rigorous evaluation before implementation.

Geographic areas

This feature will be released into the following Microsoft Azure geographic areas:

  • Germany
  • Norway
  • Singapore
  • South Africa
  • Switzerland
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Sweden
  • Qatar
  • United States
  • Europe
  • Asia Pacific
  • United Kingdom
  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • India
  • Japan
  • France
  • Korea
  • China