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There is always a discussion on protecting Power BI access, enabling MFA, conditional access etc. This is very much possible. Please refer this article. https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/secure-and-audit-power-bi-in-your-organization/ I have attached a PPT with screenshots of how this works (infact, I have taken it from iGrid’s Azure Subscription) Using certain configuration, you can even block access for users, when they are not at work. Infact, you can have such a configuration done for every O365 product. You would require Azure AD Premium P1 for this and different plans are here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/azure-active-directory-pricing This could approximately cost $6/user/month.

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