Description:
Verifies that highly privileged roles require phishing-resistant MFA.
Why:
This is a backup security policy to help protect privileged access to the tenant if the conditional access policy, which requires MFA for all users, is disabled or misconfigured.
Configured: Highly privileged roles require phishing-resistant MFA.
Not Configured: Phishing-resistant MFA is not required for highly privileged roles.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Identity
Microsoft Licensing: Requires Premium (P1) licensing
Secure Score Impact: YES — Microsoft Secure Score control aad_phishing_MFA_strength.
Remediation in Augmentt: Conditional Access Policy manager
Compliance Frameworks:
CISA SCuBA — MS.AAD.3.6
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 2) — 1682
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 3) — 1682
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 2) — 5.2.2.5
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 2) — 5.2.2.5
Microsoft documentation: