Control: 5.2.2.7 Enable Identity Protection sign-in risk policies

Description

Microsoft Entra ID Protection sign-in risk detects risks in real-time and offline. A risky sign-in is an indicator for a sign-in attempt that might not have been performed by the legitimate owner of a user account.

Note: While Identity Protection also provides two risk policies with limited conditions, Microsoft highly recommends setting up risk-based policies in Conditional Access as opposed to the "legacy method" for the following benefits:

Enhanced diagnostic data
Report-only mode integration
Graph API support
Use more Conditional Access attributes like sign-in frequency in the policy.

Turning on the sign-in risk policy ensures that suspicious sign-ins are challenged for multi-factor authentication.

Remediation

To configure a Sign-In risk policy, use the following steps:

Navigate to the Microsoft Entra admin center https://entra.microsoft.com.
Click expand Protection > Conditional Access select Policies.
Create a new policy by selecting New policy.
Set the following conditions within the policy.

Under Users or workload identities choose All users.
Under Cloud apps or actions choose All cloud apps.
Under Conditions choose Sign-in risk then Yes and check the risk level boxes High and Medium.
Under Access Controls select Grant then in the right pane click Grant access then select Require multifactor authentication.
Under Session select Sign-in Frequency and set to Every time.
Click Select.

Under Enable policy set it to Report Only until the organization is ready to enable it.
Click Create.

Note: For more information regarding risk levels refer to Microsoft's Identity Protection & Risk Doc

Usage

Run the control in your terminal:

powerpipe control run microsoft365_compliance.control.cis_v400_5_2_2_7

Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:

powerpipe login
powerpipe control run microsoft365_compliance.control.cis_v400_5_2_2_7 --share

SQL

This control uses a named query:

with block_legacy_authentication as (
  select
    tenant_id,
    count(*)
  from
    azuread_conditional_access_policy
  where
    users->'includeUsers' ?& array['All'] and
    jsonb_array_length(users -> 'excludeUsers') = 0 and
    jsonb_array_length(sign_in_risk_levels) != 0 and
    applications->'includeApplications' ?& array['All'] and
    jsonb_array_length(applications -> 'excludeApplications') = 0 and
    built_in_controls ?& array['mfa']
  group by
    tenant_id
),
tenant_list as (
  select
    distinct on (tenant_id) tenant_id,
    _ctx
  from
    azuread_user
)
select
  t.tenant_id as resource,
  case
    when (select count from block_legacy_authentication where tenant_id = t.tenant_id) > 0 then 'ok'
    else 'alarm'
  end as status,
  case
    when (select count from block_legacy_authentication where tenant_id = t.tenant_id) > 0 then t.tenant_id || ' has sign-in risk policies enabled.'
    else t.tenant_id || ' has sign-in risk policies disabled.'
  end as reason
  , t.tenant_id as tenant_id
from
  tenant_list as t;

Control: 5.2.2.7 Enable Identity Protection sign-in risk policies

Description

Remediation

Usage

SQL

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