Description:
Verifies that highly privileged roles require phishing-resistant MFA.
Why:
This is a backup security policy to help protect privileged access to the tenant if the conditional access policy, which requires MFA for all users, is disabled or misconfigured.
Configured: Highly privileged roles require phishing-resistant MFA.
Not Configured: Phishing-resistant MFA is not required for highly privileged roles.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Identity
Microsoft Licensing: Requires Premium (P1) licensing
Secure Score Impact: YES — Microsoft Secure Score control aad_phishing_MFA_strength.
Remediation in Augmentt: Conditional Access Policy manager
Compliance Frameworks:
CISA SCuBA — MS.AAD.3.6
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 2) — 1682
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 3) — 1682
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 2) — 5.2.2.5
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 2) — 5.2.2.5
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.3.6 (module 1037)._
Sourced for this page:
Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test is graded against the "Entra ID P1" tier, so it evaluates a Microsoft Entra ID setting
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 · Microsoft Entra ID · Entra ID P1 · CISA SCuBA · CIS M365 v6 L2 · CIS M365 v7 L2 · Essential Eight ML2 · Essential Eight ML3