Too Many Global Admins

calendar Oct 23, 2025 · attack.initial-access attack.defense-evasion attack.t1078 attack.persistence attack.privilege-escalation  ·
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Identifies an event where there are there are too many accounts assigned the Global Administrator role.

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 1title: Too Many Global Admins
 2id: 7bbc309f-e2b1-4eb1-8369-131a367d67d3
 3status: test
 4description: Identifies an event where there are there are too many accounts assigned the Global Administrator role.
 5references:
 6    - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-governance/privileged-identity-management/pim-how-to-configure-security-alerts#there-are-too-many-global-administrators
 7author: Mark Morowczynski '@markmorow', Gloria Lee, '@gleeiamglo'
 8date: 2023-09-14
 9tags:
10    - attack.initial-access
11    - attack.defense-evasion
12    - attack.t1078
13    - attack.persistence
14    - attack.privilege-escalation
15logsource:
16    product: azure
17    service: pim
18detection:
19    selection:
20        riskEventType: 'tooManyGlobalAdminsAssignedToTenantAlertIncident'
21    condition: selection
22falsepositives:
23    - Investigate if threshold setting in PIM is too low.
24level: high

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