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# Global Admin Audit

> Audit a client's global/company administrator accounts and recent admin-role changes — flag unexpected admins, missing MFA, and grants with no authorizing ticket.

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  **Category:** Security · [View source ↗](https://github.com/bryan-getthread/skills/blob/main/skills/security/global-admin-audit/SKILL.md)
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**Connectors:** `Liongard`

**Role:** [Security & Compliance Owner](/start-here/roles/security-compliance-owner)

**Outcome:** Risk & Compliance

**When to use:** "Who has global admin at \<client>?" / periodic admin review; after an incident, to verify no privilege escalation persisted; or feeding a posture review, insurance form, or compliance evidence request.

**Run it:** across a client's admin accounts and recent role changes (a periodic audit).

## Prompt

```
Count the keys to the kingdom and account for every one of them: who holds top-level admin,
who granted admin recently, and which of those facts nobody can explain. Report and
recommend only — role removals go through the client's change process. Work it in order:

1. Enumerate current holders of global/company administrator and equivalent top-tier roles
   from the identity posture in Liongard. Compare the count to the working benchmark: a
   small number of dedicated admin accounts (typically 2–4) plus a documented break-glass
   account — not day-to-day user accounts wearing admin.
2. Pull recent admin-role changes: grants and removals from Liongard's detection and
   timeline data where available, with actor, target, and timestamp.
3. Authorized-change cross-check for every current admin and every recent grant: search for
   the change, onboarding, or project ticket that explains it — the boring explanation gets
   checked before the alarming one.
4. Flag, ranked: admins or grants with NO authorizing ticket and no client confirmation
   (unexplained privilege); admin accounts without MFA (critical, regardless of
   explanation); shared or generic admin accounts (no individual accountability);
   day-to-day user accounts holding standing admin (candidates for separate admin accounts
   or just-in-time elevation); break-glass account missing, undocumented, or used for
   routine work.
5. An unexplained RECENT grant is not a report line — it is a live lead: verify with the
   client's authorized contact immediately, and if unclaimed, treat the granting account as
   suspected compromised and escalate to account-takeover-runbook rather than finishing the
   report.
6. Output per-client findings, flagged items first, each with evidence and a
   recommendation. Document what was checked and the decision reasoning in the note.

Guardrails — always:
- Cross-check before alarm — most unexpected admins are undocumented-but-legitimate; say
  "unexplained," not "unauthorized," until the client confirms.
- Never close the loop on assumption: an admin nobody claims stays flagged until someone
  with authority claims it.
- An unclaimed recent grant escalates immediately — when in doubt, escalate; a false
  escalation is cheap, a missed compromise isn't.
- Report and recommend only; role removals go through the client's change process.
- Degradation: Liongard absent → the audit can only cover what tickets and the client
  attest; label the output "attestation-based, not instrumented." Never invent account
  data.
```


## Related topics

- [Entra PIM Requests](/skill-library/m365-administration/entra-pim-requests.md)
- [How Notifications Work for your Team](/notifications/how-will-notifications-work-internally.md)
- [Team Admin Role: Scoped Admin Permissions](/inbox/team-admin-role.md)