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How to govern Inventory in Entra ID

A step-by-step guide to governing Inventory in Entra ID with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.

Definition

Governing Inventory in Entra ID means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Entra ID with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Inventory.

Steps

  1. Inventory Entra ID

    Connect Entra ID and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.

  2. Detect with policies

    Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Inventory in Entra ID to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.

  3. Review by owner and severity

    Use the Entra ID reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.

  4. Remediate and automate

    Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.

Entra ID controls for Inventory

Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Entra ID catalog on the Entra ID connector page.

  • Enterprise Application

    All registered Enterprise Applications in Entra ID

  • Device

    All devices (computers, phones) that are registered in Entra ID

  • Application registration

    All Entra ID application registrations

  • Domain

    All registered domains in Entra ID

  • Registration Certificate

    All application registration certificate of Entra ID

  • Deleted App Registration Certificate

    All deleted application registration certificate of Entra ID

  • Directory Role

    All directory roles registered in Entra ID

  • Enterprise Registration Certificate

    All enterprise application registration certificate of Entra ID

  • Client secret

    All client secrets registered in Entra ID

  • Deleted App Client secret

    All deleted applications client secrets registered in Entra ID

  • Deleted Application Verified Publisher

    All verified publishers of deleted applications in Entra ID

  • Enterprise App Client secret

    All enterprise applications client secrets registered in Entra ID

  • Enterprise Application Verified Publisher

    All verified publishers of enterprise applications in Entra ID

  • Verified Publisher

    All verified publishers of application registrations in Entra ID

  • App Role Assignment

    All app role assignments in Entra ID

  • Deleted Application Registration

    All deleted applications registration in Entra ID

  • User Registration Credential

    All Entra ID registration credentials of a user (MFA, Admin, Auth methods)

  • Risky Entra ID Sign-In

    Shows Risky Entra ID Sign-Ins

  • App Role

    All app roles in Entra ID

  • Enterprise Application OAuth2 Permission Scope

    All enterprise application OAuth2 permission scopes in Entra ID

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