Control: 6.20 Ensure that 'Owners can manage group membership requests in My Groups' 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.
Under Manage, select Groups.
Under Settings, select General.
Under Self Service Group Management, set Owners can manage group membership requests in My Groups to No.
Click Save.

Default Value

By default, Owners can manage group membership requests in My Groups is set to No.

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v400_6_20

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v400_6_20 --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

select
  id as resource,
  'info' as status,
  'Manual verification required.' as reason,
  display_name as subscription
from
  azure_subscription;