Settings

Four settings control what gets flagged. Adjust them in the page header (or under Filters on smaller screens). Changes recompute findings against the current scan immediately.

Time Window

The lookback period analyzed against activity logs. Drives every other detection on the page: stale, unused, over-privileged, and over-scoped all reference this window.

Defaults

Default
30 days
Options
7, 30, 60, 90, 180, 365 days

Recommended Settings

7-30 days

Offboarding and rapid post-change verification.

90 days

Quarterly audits aligned with most compliance cycles.

180-365 days

Annual reviews, seasonal access patterns, and Owner-role exception checks.

Stale Threshold

Percentage of the time window that must elapse since the last activity for an assignment to be flagged stale. Higher values flag only clearly abandoned access; lower values flag aggressively at the first sign of inactivity.

Defaults

Default
50%
Range
1-100%

How the math reads

A 365-day window with the threshold at 70% flags assignments where the last activity was more than 255 days ago (365 × 0.70). That focuses reviews on access inactive for the bulk of the year while letting quarterly or seasonal usage pass.

Recommended Settings

30-40%

Aggressive. High-security environments needing frequent validation.

50-60%

Balanced. Default for most organizations.

70-80%

Conservative. Reduces noise from intermittent legitimate use.

Over-Scoped Threshold

Minimum scope efficiency before an assignment is considered appropriately scoped. Scope efficiency is the percentage of entities in the assignment's scope that the principal has actually operated on.

Defaults

Default
30%
Range
1-100%

How the math reads

Contributor on a subscription with 100 resources, with activity on 25 of them, is 25% scope efficiency. At the default 30% threshold, that's flagged. At a 20% threshold, it isn't.

Recommended Settings

10-20%

Aggressive. Large environments with hundreds of resources per subscription.

30-40%

Balanced. Default for most organizations.

50-60%

Conservative. Only flags clearly narrow activity.

Excessive Sprawl Threshold

Number of subscriptions a single role can span before the assignments are flagged for review. Lower values prompt reviews of broad access more aggressively; higher values focus only on extreme sprawl.

Defaults

Default
5 subscriptions
Range
1-50

Recommended Settings

3-4

Strict. Many subscriptions, broad access discouraged.

5-7

Balanced. Default for most organizations.

10+

Permissive. Large enterprises where wide access is more common.