Control: 1.18 Ensure that 'Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane' is Set to 'Yes'

Description

Restricts group creation to administrators with permissions only.

Self-service group management enables users to create and manage security groups or Office 365 groups in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Unless a business requires this day-to-day delegation for some users, self-service group management should be disabled.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
Select Azure Active Directory
Then Groups
Select General in setting
Ensure that Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane is set 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, Restrict user ability to access groups features in the Access Pane is set to No.

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v150_1_18

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v150_1_18 --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

select
  'active_directory' as resource,
  'info' as status,
  'Manual verification required.' as reason;