Azure role sprawl is a quiet privilege risk. Senserva audits subscription role definitions and assignments.
Azure subscriptions accumulate role definitions and RBAC assignments over time: owners who should be readers, standing privilege, and custom roles nobody remembers. Senserva audits Azure subscription role definitions and assignments alongside your Entra ID identity posture.
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Senserva runs standalone for full Microsoft 365 posture across configurations, logs, and CVEs, or right alongside Azure RBAC.
| What Azure RBAC does well | Where teams want more |
|---|---|
| Granular, scope-based role-based access control. | Role assignments sprawl and over-privilege creeps in. |
| Custom role definitions for least privilege. | Hard to see standing privilege and risky custom roles at a glance. |
| Management-group and subscription scoping. | No native posture ranking or compliance mapping. |
| Activity logging for changes. | Azure RBAC and Entra roles are easy to review in isolation, missing the full privilege picture. |
| Capability | Azure RBAC | Senserva |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription role audit | Manual | Native |
| Over-privilege detection | Hard to see | Surfaced |
| Unified with Entra roles | No | Yes |
| Compliance mapping | No | MCSB, more |
Comparison reflects general capabilities at time of writing and is provided for research. Vendor features change; verify current specifics with each vendor.
Senserva builds a complete, structured Microsoft 365 security dataset, configuration, identity, devices, logs, CVEs, and compliance mappings, as one connected graph, and opens all of it to the AI of your choice through the Claude MCP and the Senserva SDK. Bring your own model, there is no AI markup. Point Claude, or any AI you run, at the whole dataset and it can audit, threat-hunt, explain, and remediate from your real findings, not a vendor summary.
That is the part most tools do not give you. Many have no AI at all, or a closed built-in assistant you cannot point at your own model, or they keep their findings in a dashboard you cannot query. Where a tool does expose its data to your AI, Senserva runs right alongside it and adds the rest of the Microsoft 365 picture. Either way, the data stays with you, nothing is locked in a vendor cloud.
Azure RBAC grants access by assigning a role (a set of permissions) to a principal (user, group, or service principal) at a scope (management group, subscription, resource group, or resource). Permissions inherit down the hierarchy, so an assignment high in the tree quietly applies to everything beneath it, which is both powerful and easy to over-grant.
Built-in roles like Owner and Contributor are convenient and over-used. Owner can grant access to others, an escalation path, and Contributor can change almost anything but manage access. Custom roles scoped to exactly what a workload needs are the least-privilege answer, yet many tenants accumulate broad standing assignments instead.
Privileged Identity Management extends to Azure resource roles, so even Owner and Contributor can be made eligible rather than standing, activated just in time with approval and MFA. Reviewing who holds privileged roles, where, and whether they need it permanently is the core of Azure access hygiene.
At scale, management groups, Azure Policy, and periodic access reviews keep RBAC from drifting. Classic administrators, orphaned service principal assignments, and guests with resource access are the usual findings that a structured review surfaces.
Yes, it audits Azure subscription roles and RBAC alongside Microsoft 365, Intune, Defender, and Entra ID, since privilege risk spans both.
No agents and no cloud service. Senserva reads your tenant through Microsoft's APIs and runs on Windows or Mac. You can explore the whole product first on the free Advanced Microsoft 365 Security Simulator, with no access to your environment at all.
Yes. The Advanced Microsoft 365 Security Simulator and the game let you explore a full scan, the findings, the AI, and the reports for free. Scanning your own tenant takes a free registration, which unlocks 2 tenants with up to 25 users each, and education institution and nonprofit discounts are available.
Yes. It supports multi-tenant and MSP fleets, with bulk tenant security audits and unified, client-ready reporting across many customers.
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