Description:
Verifies that enabled Conditional Access policies enforce a sign-in frequency of 4 hours or less and non-persistent browser sessions for all required administrative roles.
Why:
CIS M365 Foundations Benchmark v6 §5.2.2.4 requires Conditional Access policies enforcing sign-in frequency (periodic reauthentication of 4 hours or less) and non-persistent browser sessions (Never persistent) for administrative roles, to limit the window of a compromised privileged session.
Configured: Enabled Conditional Access policies enforce sign-in frequency and non-persistent browser sessions for all required administrative roles.
Not Configured: No enabled Conditional Access policy enforces both sign-in frequency and non-persistent browser sessions for all required administrative 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 publishes the improvement action "Ensure Sign-in frequency is enabled and browser sessions aren't persistent for Administrative users".
Remediation in Augmentt: Conditional Access Policy manager
Compliance Frameworks:
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 5.2.2.4
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 5.2.2.4
Microsoft documentation:
_KB status: new — this check is not yet documented in the knowledge base._
_Source: Augmentt native check, aligned to the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark. Check ID AUG.CIS.M365.5.2.2.4 (module 1079)._
Sourced for this page:
Category — Microsoft service targeted by the check
Secure Score — Microsoft Learn publishes the Secure Score improvement action "Ensure Sign-in frequency is enabled and browser sessions aren't persistent for Administrative users".
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