How to govern Operation in Entra ID
A step-by-step guide to governing Operation in Entra ID with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Operation 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 Operation.
Steps
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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.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Operation in Entra ID to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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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.
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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 Operation
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Entra ID catalog on the Entra ID connector page.
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Applications with certificates that are about to expire
Shows Entra ID applications where certificates expire in the next 30 days
Severity: High -
Applications with expired certificates
Shows Entra ID applications with expired certificates
Severity: High -
Applications with client secrets that are about to expire
Shows Entra ID applications where client secrets expire in the next 30 days
Severity: High -
Applications with expired client secrets
Shows Entra ID applications with expired client secrets
Severity: High -
Enterprise applications (SharePoint Add-Ins) with expired certificates or client secrets
Shows Enterprise applications with expired certificates or client secrets. In most cases these applications are SharePoint Add-Ins
Severity: Medium -
Devices with disabled user accounts
Shows devices with disabled owners or user accounts
Severity: Medium -
Enterprise applications (SharePoint Add-Ins) with certificates or client secrets
Shows Enterprise applications with certificates or client secrets. In most cases these applications are SharePoint Add-Ins
Severity: Medium -
Application registrations without owners
Shows Application registrations without any owners
Severity: Medium -
Enterprise Applications without owners
Shows Enterprise Applications without owners (excluding first-party Microsoft apps)
Severity: Medium
