Control: 1.21 Ensure that 'Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell' is set to 'No'

Description

Restrict Microsoft 365 group creation to administrators only.

Restricting Microsoft 365 group creation to administrators only ensures that creation of Microsoft 365 groups is controlled by the administrator. Appropriate groups should be created and managed by the administrator and group creation rights should not be delegated to any other user.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
Select Azure Active Directory
Then Groups
Select General in settings
Set Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell to No

Please note that at this point of time, there is no Azure CLI or other API commands available to programmatically conduct security configuration for this recommendation.

Default Value

By default, Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell is set to Yes.

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v150_1_21

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v150_1_21 --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

ad_manual_control