EvidenceSheet
Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) · Privileged Access

PA-2 Avoid standing access for user accounts and permissions

Use Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for just-in-time access elevation with approval workflows and time-bound activation.

Source: Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark), PA-2. The statement above is our statement of the clause, read from the published text and cited so you can check it against the official text, not the instrument verbatim. Open Azure Security Benchmark v3 (renamed Microsoft cloud security benchmark) in the compliance library.

4
artefacts
3
held by a system
1
at each review
easy
to go live
Identity provider / directory
where the evidence lives
teal = a system already holds it · olive = produced at each review. To go live: easy when half or more of the artefacts are already held by a system, moderate from a quarter to a half, hard below a quarter.

These are the artefacts auditors commonly ask for on this requirement, our guidance rather than text from the standard. Your assessor decides what is sufficient in your context, and asks for samples across the period when a report covers one.

system holds itEvidence a system already holds

  • PIM configuration · Identity provider / directory
  • JIT activation logs · Identity provider / directory
  • Access review history · Identity provider / directory

periodic reviewEvidence produced at each review

  • Approval workflow records · Identity provider / directory

governing documentDocuments that govern the control

none for this control

First move

Automate the pull from your Identity provider / directory. Scheduled export of users, roles and MFA state from the directory; access-review completion pulled from the IdP, not a spreadsheet.

Common gaps auditors find

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Paste the rows you run your controls from and get this mapping for every control at once, with the periodic-review ones flagged and a first move per row. No account for the first run.

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PA-1 Separate and limit highly privileged/administrative users · PA-3 Manage lifecycle of identities and entitlements