Control: 1.9 Ensure that 'Notify users on password resets?' is set to 'Yes'

Description

Ensure that users are notified on their primary and secondary emails on password resets.

User notification on password reset is a passive way of confirming password reset activity. It helps the user to recognize unauthorized password reset activities.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
Select Azure Active Directory
Select Users
Select Password reset
Select Notification
Set Notify users on password resets? to Yes

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, Notify users on password resets? is set to "Yes".

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v150_1_9

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v150_1_9 --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

ad_manual_control