Tenant creation events are triaged
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Tenant creation events should be monitored and triaged to detect unauthorized tenant creation. Users with sufficient permissions can create new tenants, which could be used to establish shadow environments outside your organization’s security monitoring. Routing audit logs to a SIEM and configuring alerts for tenant creation events enables security teams to quickly investigate and respond to potentially malicious activity.
Remediation
Section titled “Remediation”- Review and restrict permissions to create tenants
- Stream audit logs to an event hub for SIEM integration
- Configure monitoring and alerting for audit events
Run it
Section titled “Run it”The check runs as part of the whole assessment, with the ZeroTrustAssessment module installed:
Install-Module ZeroTrustAssessment -Scope CurrentUserConnect-MaesterInvoke-Maester -Pack ZTA -SkipBuiltInLeave out -SkipBuiltIn to run Maester’s own checks in the same run.
About this check
| Severity | Medium |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Impact on users | Low |
| Pillar | Identity |
| Category | Monitoring |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Logs and monitoring |
| Area | Logging and detection |
| Tenant | Workforce |
Product, feature, area and ATT&CK are Maester’s: the assessment does not record them, so Maester keeps them in the pack’s taxonomy.json.
A Microsoft check, part of the Zero Trust Assessment pack. Text from ZeroTrustAssessment 3.1.0, © Microsoft, MIT licence.