Ownership
Every finding gets an accountable owner
Surf resolves the accountable human for each access finding from identity, HR, and app context, so nothing waits in an unowned queue.
Microsoft Entra ID and Surf AI
Operationalize your Entra access findings: clean permissions, clear owners
Microsoft Entra ID governs who can access what across your workforce and apps. Surf AI helps operationalize remediation for detected risks, removes standing access that no one uses, and keeps your identity footprint clean as people and roles change.
- Owner-driven access cleanup
- Standing access removed safely
- Identity hygiene that holds
Access risks are visible. Cleaning them up is the work.
Microsoft Entra ID shows dormant accounts, over-provisioned roles, and access that should have been removed. Acting on any of it means knowing whose access it is, whether removing it breaks a workflow, and getting the change approved.
That is manual, so risky access lingers and the list of access findings only grows. Every joiner, mover, and leaver adds more. Without a closed loop, identity hygiene decays between certification cycles and the backlog of stale access never really shrinks.
Microsoft Entra ID shows the risky access. Surf AI removes it, safely, and keeps it clean.
What changes
From a growing queue to a backlog that shrinks.
Closure
Closed and verified, not just ticketed
Surf drives each access risk to a verified fix and writes the outcome back, turning a ticket into a closed, recorded loop.
Backlog
The backlog shrinks and stays down
Recurring standing access is fixed at the source and stops coming back, so hygiene improves and holds instead of resetting each review cycle.
The Scenario
Risky standing access is sitting in your directory.
Microsoft Entra IDIdentity
Standing accessHigh
Dormant privileged role on a production app
Entra flags an assignment that grants elevated rights that have gone unused. On its own it is a low-noise finding, but it is exactly the standing access that should not persist.
- Identity
- j.okafor (workforce user)
- Access
- Application Administrator role
- Usage
- Dormant · no recent sign-in
- Provisioned via
- Group assignment
- Blast radius
- Production application
- Policy
- Least privilege
What happens next is where the two paths diverge.
Two paths
Same standing access. Two outcomes.
Without Surf AI
Backlog grows.
Risky standing access sits open while newer identity findings stack behind it.
The risk is visible. Ownership, impact, and change policy are not.
- Find the ownerManual
- Assess the impactUnclear
- Clear the changeBlocked
- Escalate and approveAd hoc
- Fix and closeReopens
With Surf AI
Backlog shrinks.
Owned, closed, and verified. Identity hygiene holds between review cycles.
Entra discovers the finding. The Context Graph helps operationalize a fix.
- Resolve ownershipAutomated
- Model and guardModeled
- Route to the ownerOne tap
- Close and write backVerified
High standing access
Criticalj.okafor · ENTRA-1184. Application Administrator on a production app, dormant with no recent sign-in.
Surf AI via Entra · Approve & Remediate
How it works
From finding to verified closure.
Bring in the findings
Ingest
Entra findings flow into Surf with full context, so every access risk enters the loop ready to act on rather than waiting in a queue.
Own it and model it
Resolve
The Context Graph names the accountable owner and models ripple effects, compliance scope, and availability across identity, HR, cloud, apps, and IT systems.
Remediate and write back
Close
The owner gets a one-tap action. One approval drives the fix through your change workflow, and Surf writes the verified outcome back to Entra.
All of it runs inside the Context Graph, a continuously updated knowledge graph that links identity, cloud, data, HR, and IT systems.
Context Graph
Capabilities that turn Entra findings into closed, owned work.
Subject defragmentation
A person or service is scattered across identity, HR, code, and cloud systems under different handles. The Context Graph resolves them into one subject, so ownership points to a real, accountable human even when the record is stale.
Ripple Effect modeling
Before recommending action, Surf simulates downstream impact across apps, entitlements, and workflows, so teams know what a revoke will and will not break, and which option is safest.
Compliance embedding
Regulated scope, change-approval rules, and policy are properties of every node, resolved alongside ownership rather than chased separately.
Availability awareness
Leave status, on-call schedules, and identity activity determine who can act, not just who is listed as the owner on paper.
Bidirectional lifecycle closure
Surf writes remediation outcomes back to Entra with action and approver, so the finding becomes a verified closure with a complete audit trail on both sides.
Across domains
One graph, every domain
Because the graph spans identity, HR, ITSM, and SaaS, Surf assigns an accountable owner even when a finding never maps cleanly to a single cloud asset, the cross-domain reach most remediation tools lack.
Partners
Built together for closed-loop identity remediation.
About Surf AI
Surf AI is an agentic operations platform that helps enterprises operationalize security programs with AI. By connecting context across identity, cloud, data, HR, and IT systems, Surf closes the gap between understanding risk and acting on it. Surf's AI-native platform uses specialized agents to drive action with human oversight, guardrails, and auditability built in. Surf is backed by Accel, Cyberstarts and Boldstart Ventures, and trusted by global companies including Fortune 500 enterprises.
www.surf.ai
About Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service. It helps organizations manage workforce identities, secure access to apps and resources, and enforce least-privilege controls across Microsoft 365, Azure, and thousands of connected applications.
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Turn Entra findings into closed, owned work.
See how Surf gives every access finding an owner, a safe path to closure, and a complete audit trail.