Description:
Verifies that banned passwords are enforced.
Why:
Microsoft Entra Password Protection detects and blocks known weak passwords and their variants, and can also block additional weak terms that are specific to your organization.
Configured: Banned passwords are enforced.
Not Configured: Banned passwords are not enforced.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Identity
Microsoft Licensing: Requires Premium (P1) 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:
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 5.2.3.3
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 5.2.3.3
CMMC Level 2 — IA.L2-3.5.7
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 EIDSCA.PR01 (module 1050)._
Sourced for this page:
Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test ID targets Microsoft Entra ID
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 · Microsoft Entra ID · Entra ID P1 · CIS M365 v6 L1 · CIS M365 v7 L1 · CMMC Level 2