Control: 1.19 Ensure that 'Owners can manage group membership requests in the Access Panel' is set to 'No'

Description

Restrict security group management to administrators only.

Restricting security group management to administrators only prohibits users from making changes to security groups. This ensures that security groups are appropriately managed and their management is not delegated to non-administrators.

Remediation

From Azure Portal

From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
Select Microsoft Entra ID.
Then Groups.
Select General in settings.
Set Owners can manage group membership requests in the Access Panel to No.

Default Value

By default, Owners can manage group membership requests in the Access Panel is set to No.

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v210_1_19

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v210_1_19 --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

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