Description:

Verifies that tenant has no hybrid Global Administrator accounts.

Why:

By provisioning cloud-only Microsoft Entra ID user accounts to privileged users, the risks associated with a compromise of on-premises federation infrastructure are reduced. It is more challenging for the adversary to pivot from the compromised environment to the cloud with privileged access.

Configured: Tenant has no hybrid Global Administrator accounts.

Not Configured: Tenant has hybrid Global Administrator accounts.

Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.

Category: Identity

Microsoft Licensing: Works with Basic licensing

Remediation in Augmentt: No in-product remediation — remediate in the Microsoft admin portals.

Compliance Frameworks:

  • CISA SCuBA — MS.AAD.7.3

  • CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 1.1.1

  • CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 1.1.1

  • CMMC Level 2 — AC.L2-3.1.5

Microsoft documentation: