Over the last years, Microsoft has released many design principles, best practices and security concepts for securing privileged access in a Microsoft Cloud environment. This includes also the "Enterprise Access Model" as an evolution of the previously known (Active Directory) ESAE approach.

But what are real-world experiences and examples of implementing those reference architecture? Which security controls should be applied? Who and what should be defined as "Tier0" or "Control Plane"? Which privilege escalation paths should be considered even in a tiered administration model?

In this demo-drive session, I will share my learnings and practical approach to identify, protect and monitor the high-privileged assets in Microsoft Entra. We will go through related features and monitoring capabilities but also limitations to implement a tiered administration model in a cloud environment. In addition, I will show insights of my free commmunity tool "EntraOps" which allows to automate classification and protection of privileged assets in your environment.