Azure Security Fundamentals: Moving Co-Admins to RBAC

Anyone who has worked with Azure for long enough knows the raised eyebrow response you have gotten from security teams in the past when you describe how you can enforce separation of duties and least privilege when it comes to Azure subscription and service management. In a previously well-received blog post, one of my colleagues provided good guidance around subscription management as it applied to Azure at that time.

Essentially, the situation was:

  • Any Azure service management required full administrator or co-administrator access to a subscription which provided the user with full permission to do anything provisioned there-in.
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Good Practices for Managing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions

We’ve published some updated guidance for Service Admin account management based on the new RBAC access control techniques now available in Azure. While the classic non-RBAC portal is required, the content in the post here is still very relevant though!

Overview

Over the years it has been drilled into me to use “Least Privilege” access whenever and however possible. Least Privilege is all about limiting users, systems, and services to only those privileges which are absolutely essential to get the job done.… [Keep reading] “Good Practices for Managing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions”