Governance guide

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.

Definition

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

  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 Operation 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 Operation

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

  • 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
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