Description:
Modern authentication in Exchange Online provides you with a variety of ways to increase security in your organization with features like conditional access and multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Why:
Modern authentication in Exchange Online provides you a variety of ways to increase security in your organization with features like conditional access and multi-factor authentication (MFA).Basic authentication is the less secure method used by older client applications.Microsoft recommends that you turn off basic authentication for your organization.
Configured: This setting is in place.
Not Configured: This setting is not in place.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: General
Microsoft Licensing: Works with Basic licensing
Secure Score Impact: YES — Microsoft Secure Score control exo_oauth2clientprofileenabled.
Remediation in Augmentt: Configure directly in Augmentt (Configure tab)
Compliance Frameworks:
NIST CSF 2.0 — PR.DS-02
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 6.5.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 6.5.1
HIPAA Security Rule — 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
CMMC Level 2 — AC.L2-3.1.13, IA.L2-3.5.4
Microsoft documentation: