ConductorOne vs Microsoft Entra ID Governance

The Microsoft Entra ID Governance alternative built for modern enterprises

Microsoft Entra ID Governance provides baseline IGA functionality for Microsoft-centric organizations, but teams operating in diverse environments often find they need a more flexible, unified approach.

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See how ConductorOne compares to Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Core Focus

Integrations

Platform depth

User Experience

Cost model

A full-suite, purpose-built IGA platform for your entire tech stack.

Deep, out-of-the-box integrations and connectors for cloud, on-prem, and homegrown apps.

Granular control over all permissions, roles, and resources.

Intuitive user interface and seamless experience for all end users (web, Slack, MS Teams, CLI).

Transparent modular pricing that delivers a fast time-to-value.

Microsoft Entra ID Governance

A starter IGA add-on, primarily suited for Microsoft-centric environments.

Has known issues with non-Microsoft, on-prem, and homegrown apps.

Lacks the deep, granular control and flexibility of a purpose-built solution.

Overwhelming and complicated UI that requires additional training.

Confusing, premium licensing (P2 + add-ons) with hidden costs for customization.

Top 5 reasons security leaders prefer ConductorOne

Time to value

“The biggest ROI we have seen is in time. We have communicated to leadership and management our estimates and I'm very confident that the tool pays for itself.”

Roberto Mateo, VP of It Business Operations

Full visibility and control

“A huge win for me is the overall visibility. I don’t have to log into ten different places to figure out who has access to what – I can just go to ConductorOne.”

Paul Yoo, Head of Security Platform

Simple, intuitive design

“One day you requested AWS access through IT tickets. The next day you didn’t. We didn’t have to roll it out in stages — just a clean cutover.”

Stephen Darling, Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Committed to innovation

“None of the other options in the market were simple for us. ConductorOne was incredibly inquisitive, collaborative, iterative, and innovative.”

Tim Lisko, Director of Product and Infrastructure Security

Real security impact

“We’ve appreciably improved our security posture without spending a bunch of time and money, which is a huge benefit for our customers.”

Matthew Sullivan, Infrastructure Security Team Leader

More reasons to come aboard

The business case for modern IGA

Strengthen your security posture

Discover shadow apps, unused and orphaned accounts, and overprivileged users, and remediate identity-based risks.

Move to zero standing privileges

Enable just-in-time access for critical resources and infrastructure—without sacrificing productivity.

Streamline regulatory compliance

Automate user access reviews, separation of duties enforcement, onboarding, and offboarding.

Drive efficiency

Streamline self-service access requests, helpdesk automation, auto-approval workflows, and zero-touch provisioning with a modern user experience.

Enable technical teams

Support technical users with modern APIs, command line tools, Terraform for automated configuration, and webhooks for workflow orchestration.

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FAQs

That’s a common setup.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a top-tier identity provider (IDP), excellent for authentication, SSO (single sign-on), and MFA (multi-factor authentication).
Entra ID Governance is an add-on module that attempts to add identity governance and administration (IGA) on top of that. The key difference is that it’s primarily built for the Microsoft ecosystem and lacks the deep access controls for on-premises or third-party SaaS apps.

ConductorOne is a full, purpose-built access management solution that provides seamless integration with Entra as your IDP to provide user-friendly, granular governance over all your apps.

Entra ID Governance wasn’t built for on-premises systems (beyond basic Active Directory sync) and non-Microsoft SaaS apps. ConductorOne is built for complexity, providing deep access controls for your entire stack, from modern cloud-based apps to legacy on-premises systems like Oracle or homegrown apps, giving you a unified identity view.

Entra ID Governance offers basic identity lifecycle management and conditional access policies. ConductorOne is an AI-native platform focused on cybersecurity use cases like enforcing least privilege access in real-time. This includes just-in-time (JIT) access, which grants temporary privileged access to critical systems. This granular entitlement management ensures all user identities have only the appropriate access they need.

Entra ID Governance can be a good starter access management solution if your world is 100% Microsoft. Legacy vendors like SailPoint, Saviynt, or Oracle can complex and expensive. Okta and Ping Identity are best-in-class IDPs, but their identity governance modules, like Entra’s, are add-ons. ConductorOne is the user-friendly, scalable, and modern identity and access management (IAM) platform that combines the power of legacy tools with the speed of a cloud-based solution.

ConductorOne automates the full identity lifecycle management process. It handles user provisioning when a user joins, manages user roles and access rights based on RBAC policies, and, critically, ensures complete deprovisioning of all user accounts when they leave. For compliance, it automates access certification (reviews) in a user-friendly way (for example, through Slack or Teams), ensuring you can prove to auditors that all user identities have the appropriate access and meet regulatory requirements.