Privileged accounts are among the most targeted identities in any organization. Whether it's a Global Administrator in Microsoft 365, a Domain Admin in Active Directory, or another elevated account, changes to privileged access and MFA settings can significantly impact an organization's security posture.
Without continuous visibility, it's easy for administrative privileges to be granted without approval, MFA to be disabled, or dormant privileged accounts to go unnoticed until they become a security incident.
LiongardIQ helps MSPs continuously monitor privileged accounts and MFA adoption across customer environments, making it easier to detect unexpected changes, validate security controls, and respond quickly when elevated access changes occur.
This helps MSPs:
Monitor privileged account membership
Identify accounts without MFA
Detect newly assigned administrator roles
Review dormant privileged accounts
Support compliance and security reviews
Investigate identity-related security incidents
Why monitor privileged accounts?
Administrator accounts provide elevated access to critical systems and should be reviewed regularly.
Common risks include:
New administrator accounts created without approval
Former employees retaining privileged access
MFA disabled on privileged accounts
Dormant administrator accounts
Excessive administrative privileges
Shared administrator accounts
Monitoring these changes helps reduce the likelihood of unauthorized access while improving visibility into one of the highest-risk areas of the environment.
Review privileged identities with Asset Inventory
LiongardIQ's Identity Inventory provides a centralized view of users and accounts across supported identity platforms.
Use Identity Inventory to review:
Global Administrators
Domain Administrators
Privileged role assignments
Accounts missing MFA
Dormant administrator accounts
Recently added or modified identities
Visualize identity data with Visual Insights
Visual Insights allows you to build dashboards that visualize the same identity and account data available in Asset Inventory, making it easier to review privileged access and MFA coverage across one or more customer environments.
Build dashboards to display:
Privileged accounts
Global and Domain Administrators
Accounts without MFA
Dormant accounts
Identity inventory by customer
User and account summaries
These dashboards are ideal for:
Security reviews
QBRs
Executive reporting
Compliance reviews
Visualizing identity data helps technical and non-technical stakeholders quickly understand the current state of privileged access and MFA adoption without manually reviewing individual accounts.
Investigate with Roar Assistant
Roar Assistant makes it easy to answer identity and security questions without manually searching through dashboards or reports.
Examples include:
Which users are Global Administrators?
Which privileged accounts do not have MFA enabled?
Have any administrator roles changed recently?
Which dormant accounts still have elevated permissions?
Show me users added to privileged groups in the last 30 days.
Which customers have privileged accounts without MFA?
Roar Assistant can quickly summarize findings across supported environments, helping technicians, security teams, and vCIOs investigate identity-related risks faster.
Operational workflows
Weekly privileged access reviews
Review:
New administrator accounts
Privileged role assignments
Accounts missing MFA
Dormant administrator accounts
Validate that each account still requires elevated access.
Respond to unexpected changes
Combine Change Detection and Actionable Alerts to identify:
New administrator assignments
MFA status changes
Changes to privileged group membership
Administrative account creation
Unexpected changes should be investigated promptly to determine whether they were authorized.
Support security and compliance reviews
Use Identity Inventory and reporting to validate:
MFA adoption
Least privilege practices
Administrative account hygiene
Identity governance
These reviews can support customer security assessments, compliance initiatives, and cyber insurance questionnaires.
Best practices
Review privileged accounts separately from standard users.
Require MFA for all administrative accounts.
Remove unnecessary administrator privileges promptly.
Investigate newly assigned privileged roles.
Monitor dormant administrator accounts.
Use Roar Assistant to quickly answer identity-related questions across customer environments.
Pair continuous monitoring with a recurring user access review process.
Operational outcomes
Monitoring privileged account and MFA changes helps MSPs:
Detect identity-related security risks earlier
Strengthen identity governance
Improve visibility into privileged access
Reduce unauthorized administrative access
Support compliance and audit readiness
Improve incident response
Standardize security reviews across customers