![]() Every organization should prefer to create custom “Conditional Access Policies” to implement their own security, identity and access strategy. Design and scope of this minimal security level are documented by Microsoft. It’s available for every organization to achieve a basic level of security without extra costs. It is an “one-click” solution to implement Microsoft’s most basically recommendations for your new Azure AD tenant. Security defaults was introduced in November 2019 to replace “Baseline policies” in Azure AD Conditional Access. Security Defaults (Baseline policies / Conditional Access)Īzure AD Portal > Properties > Manage Security Defaults In addition my statements could be out-dated after publishing this article. ![]() You should cross review these with your environment and requirements (as always). Listed below are some recommendations based on my personal view and assessment. In the following sections I like to give an overview of some settings that are not part or fully covered by the “Identity Secure Score” (yet). These information are also available from the Microsoft Graph Security API and can be integrated to your existing operational dashboard (KPI/ITSM or monitoring) solution. ![]() I can strongly recommended to review the score and improvement actions on a regular basis. This should help you to estimate and raise awareness of configuration risks. Score impact of improvement actions, overall score of your tenant and relevant benchmarks ( average by industry or company size) are also available from this blade. You’ll find more details about managing these special kind of accounts for emergency scenarios on my blog.Ĭonfiguration of Azure AD Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) or (Global) Password Protection and other latest security features are also part of the recommended actions if you have not already enabled it. In this example you should take care on your “Emergency access accounts” (“Break glass”) if you like to exclude them from MFA (as planned in case of MFA service outage). On the one hand many findings are very clear and obviously (such as require MFA for privileged roles).īut on the other hand some action descriptions and guidance should be well thought out and not followed blindly. You’ll find the “ Identity secure score” in the “Azure AD Security” blade of your Azure Portal: It is very easy to follow Microsoft’s security recommendations and guidance to improve your identity security posture. Providing every customer a built-in measurement of their “identity security configuration”, plan and review security improvements are the primary goals. Microsoft did a good job to implement “Identity Security Score” for Azure AD which is similar designed as other security scores in Microsoft Cloud services (Office 365 and Azure Security Center). Best practices may have been changed or newly introduced features or settings was enabled in your tenant.įollow the release notes of Azure AD to be aware of changes in Azure AD. Nevertheless the customer is still responsible to review “by default” settings and comparing these with business and organizational requirements.Īzure AD, as every cloud service, is not a shipped product and therefore you should regularly assess previous and new settings. Local administrators on Azure AD joined devicesĭefault tenant settings seems to be chosen (by Microsoft) to fits for most (small or mid-sized) organizations.Application registrations and user consent.Security Defaults (Baseline policies / Conditional Access).
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