Description:
Modern authentication in Exchange Online provides you with a variety of ways to increase security in your organization with features like conditional access and multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Why:
Modern authentication in Exchange Online provides you a variety of ways to increase security in your organization with features like conditional access and multi-factor authentication (MFA).Basic authentication is the less secure method used by older client applications.Microsoft recommends that you turn off basic authentication for your organization.
Configured: This setting is in place.
Not Configured: This setting is not in place.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: General
Microsoft Licensing: Works with Basic licensing
Secure Score Impact: YES — Microsoft Secure Score control exo_oauth2clientprofileenabled.
Remediation in Augmentt: Configure directly in Augmentt (Configure tab)
Compliance Frameworks:
NIST CSF 2.0 — PR.DS-02
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 6.5.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 6.5.1
HIPAA Security Rule — 164.312(e)(2)(ii)
CMMC Level 2 — AC.L2-3.1.13, IA.L2-3.5.4
Microsoft documentation:
_KB status: already published as "Modern Authentication for Exchange/Outlook" — update the existing step in place._
_Source: Augmentt native check. Check ID enableexchangemodernauth (module 29)._
Sourced for this page:
Secure Score — Microsoft Secure Score control read by Augmentt from Microsoft Graph
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 · General · M365 Basic · Secure Score · CIS M365 v6 L1 · CIS M365 v7 L1 · NIST CSF 2.0 · HIPAA · CMMC Level 2