Cloudwell Empowers Financial Oversight Group with Azure PIM Insights

Leveraging Business Intelligence to Enhance Privileged Access Visibility and Security

In today’s evolving digital landscape, financial regulatory organizations must ensure the security of privileged access to critical systems with effective Azure PIM reporting. Therefore, having a structured reporting framework is essential to maintaining oversight. A leading financial oversight group needed a streamlined way to track and analyze Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM) activations to enhance security monitoring, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance. Cloudwell delivered a tailored Business Intelligence (BI) solution. As a result, the organization gained a powerful reporting framework that provides real-time insights into privileged access activities.

Objectives

To address the organization’s need for enhanced visibility into privileged access management, Cloudwell focused on key objectives that would provide actionable insights and strengthen security monitoring. These objectives included:

  • Increase Visibility – Provide detailed tracking of PIM activations to understand access patterns and identify frequent requesters.

  • Enhance Security Measures – Strengthen risk management by pinpointing high-frequency privileged access requests.

  • Improve Compliance & Auditing – Ensure regulatory adherence with a transparent and auditable history of elevated access requests.

  • Enable Data-Driven Decision Making – Empower stakeholders with actionable insights to refine security and access control policies.

Challenge

A leading financial regulatory association sought a comprehensive reporting solution to track Azure Privileged Identity Management (PIM) activations. The organization needed visibility into which employees frequently request PIM approval and the reasons behind these requests. Consequently, this insight was critical for identifying potential risks, monitoring elevated access trends, and ensuring compliance with internal security policies. This insight was critical for identifying potential risks, monitoring elevated access trends, and ensuring compliance with internal security policies.

Solution

Cloudwell developed a tailored Business Intelligence (BI) solution utilizing Azure APIs to extract and model the necessary data. By structuring the data effectively, Cloudwell provided the organization with an intuitive Power BI dashboard. As a result, stakeholders could easily interpret real-time visualizations of PIM activations. The solution enabled stakeholders to:

  • Identify Access Trends – Gain visibility into which employees and departments most often request elevated access.

  • Monitor High-Risk Requests – Track patterns of repeated access to sensitive resources.

  • Enhance Decision-Making – Use data-driven insights to refine access control policies and mitigate security risks.

Results

Within weeks, the organization had a fully operational report providing valuable insights into PIM activations. Consequently, they were able to take immediate action based on data-driven recommendations. The organization gained a clearer understanding of their privileged access landscape, allowing them to:

  • Improve security oversight by proactively monitoring high-frequency access requests.

  • Optimize internal processes by identifying inefficiencies in PIM approval workflows.

  • Strengthen compliance efforts with an auditable history of privileged access requests.

Cloudwell’s Business Intelligence expertise empowered the organization to harness the full potential of Azure PIM data, transforming security monitoring from a reactive to a proactive approach.