Conditional Access protected actions are enabled

Overview

Threat actors who gain privileged access to a tenant can manipulate identity, access, and security configurations. This type of attack can result in environment-wide compromise and loss of control over organizational assets. Take action to protect high-impact management tasks associated with Conditional Access policies, cross-tenant access settings, hard deletions, and network locations that are critical to maintaining security.

Protected actions let administrators secure these tasks with extra security controls, such as stronger authentication methods (passwordless MFA or phishing-resistant MFA), the use of Privileged Access Workstation (PAW) devices, or shorter session timeouts.

Remediation

• Add, test, or remove protected actions in Microsoft Entra ID

Run it

The check runs as part of the whole assessment, with the ZeroTrustAssessment module installed:

Install-Module ZeroTrustAssessment -Scope CurrentUser
Connect-Maester
Invoke-Maester -Pack ZTA -SkipBuiltIn

Leave 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	Access control
Product	Entra ID
Feature	Roles and administrators
Area	Privileged access
ATT&CK	T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies, T1484.002 Trust Modification
Licence	P1
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.