Description:

Verifies that DMARC policies are published for all domains.

Why:

Without a DMARC policy available for each domain, recipients may improperly handle SPF and DKIM failures, possibly enabling spoofed emails to reach end users' mailboxes. Publishing DMARC records at the second-level domain protects the second-level domains and all subdomains.

Configured: DMARC policies are published for all domains.

Not Configured: DMARC policies are not published for all domains.

Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.

Category: Exchange

Microsoft Licensing: Works with Basic licensing

Secure Score Impact: Not verified. No Microsoft Secure Score control could be confirmed for this setting from published sources. See the note in README.md before publishing this field.

Remediation in Augmentt: No in-product remediation — remediate in the Microsoft admin portals.

Compliance Frameworks:

  • CISA SCuBA — MS.EXO.4.1

  • CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 2.1.8

  • CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 2.1.8

Microsoft documentation:


_KB status: new — this check is not yet documented in the knowledge base._

_Source: Sourced from the open-source Maester project and extended by Augmentt with multi-tenant support, compliance mapping and in-product remediation. Check ID CISA.MS.EXO.4.1 (module 1025)._

Sourced for this page:

  • Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test is graded against the "exchange" tier, so it evaluates a Microsoft Entra ID setting

  • Secure Score — No Microsoft Secure Score control name is published for this setting and Augmentt does not read one.


Draft metadata — apply these as Stonly tags in the console, then delete this block. The Stonly API cannot set tags, so they are recorded here instead.
Tags: posture-check · compliance-audit · Exchange Online · M365 Basic · CIS M365 v6 L1 · CIS M365 v7 L1 · CISA SCuBA