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4. Plan and implement workload identities (20–25%)
Software outnumbers people in every modern tenant — scripts, daemons, SaaS integrations, and APIs all authenticate and get authorized just like the users in Phase 3. This phase covers the non-human cast: choosing and creating workload identities (4.1), operating the enterprise applications your workforce signs into (4.2), registering the apps your organization builds (4.3), and watching the whole SaaS estate with Defender for Cloud Apps (4.4). The recurring theme: apps hold power through permissions and credentials, and both demand the same least-privilege discipline as admin roles.
Written byAlvin Varughese
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