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Governance Relationships

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This article explains how to configure governance relationships for multitenant organizations and managed security service providers (MSSPs) to manage delegated access to customer tenants through the Microsoft Defender portal.

Important

This feature is currently in preview.

Overview

A governance relationship is a directional connection between two Microsoft Entra tenants that enables a governing tenant (the home tenant that manages access) to manage security operations across multiple customer tenants (the tenants that grant delegated access) with fine-grained role assignments. This capability supports multitenant organizations (MTOs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) that need to provide security services across multiple Microsoft Entra tenants.