Description:
Verifies that approval is required to activate Global Administrator.
Why:
Requiring approval for a user to activate Global Administrator, which provides unfettered access, makes it more challenging for an attacker to compromise the tenant with stolen credentials and it provides visibility of activities indicating a compromise is taking place.
Configured: Approval is required to activate Global Administrator.
Not Configured: No approval is required to activate Global Administrator.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Identity
Microsoft Licensing: Requires Premium (P2) 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.AAD.7.6
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 2) — 5.3.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 2) — 5.3.1
CMMC Level 2 — AU.L2-3.3.1
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.AAD.7.6 (module 1066)._
Sourced for this page:
Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test is graded against the "Entra ID P2" 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 · Microsoft Entra ID · Entra ID P2 · CISA SCuBA · CIS M365 v6 L2 · CIS M365 v7 L2 · CMMC Level 2