![]() ![]() Microsoft cloud security features like Conditional Access and MFA rely on modern authentication to be used. What this means can be taken from the Conditional Access baseline documentation that I already mentioned in the beginning: Microsoft takes the risk level of the user and their sign-in to enforce MFA if anything seems suscpicious. However, in this case it’s not enforced for all sign-ins but to protect the account “whenever necessary”. With Security Defaults, standard users will also be prompted for strong authentication. With Security Defaults, exclusions can’t be made to satisfy this recommendation! Another point that shows they are intended for smaller companies. Note It is best practice to have at least one emergency access account that is not forced to use multi-factor authentication. So using the old Azure portal to enforce MFA for other accounts could be necessary. If you enable security defaults you can’t add additional Conditional Access policies. Note There are other administrative roles that you might want to secure. Helpdesk administrators / Password administrators.These administrative roles will be enforced to use MFA every time they sign in: After that, it will be enforced at the next sign in (in a browser to one of the companies Azure AD linked cloud resources, e.g. Each account has a unique 14 days perios to complete registration. Note If you already use custom Conditional Access policies, security defaults cannot be enabled! What “Security Defaults” doesĪt the moment, this is what security defaults enable: MFA registrationĪll users of the tenant will be prompted to register for multi-factor authentication. The setting is hidden under the “Properties” section in the Azure AD portal: Let’s have a look! How to enable itĮnabling Azure AD Security Defaults is quite simple. They started with Conditional Access baseline policies a few months back and have now introduced a new concept: Azure Active Directory security defaults. ![]() So I am very happy that Microsoft works on providing out-of-the-box settings to increase security. Every successful cyber attack poses a threat to businesses which also puts jobs and people at risk. For a consultant like me it might seem to be the best business oppurtunity to work with customers that still have their way to go. Unfortunately, numbers show that even in 2019 only around 8% of administrative accounts in Azure AD use multi-factor authentication. With the cloud and Azure AD, some companies used the possibility not to start with the same mistakes that were made in the past. Looking back at Windows and especially Active Directory there have always been multiple steps that had to be considered. Security in the Microsoft world has never been an on/off switch. ![]()
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