Workload Identities are configured with risk-based policies

Overview

Set up risk-based Conditional Access policies for workload identities based on risk policy in Microsoft Entra ID to make sure only trusted and verified workloads use sensitive resources. Without these policies, threat actors can compromise workload identities with minimal detection and perform further attacks. Without conditional controls to detect anomalous activity and other risks, there’s no check against malicious operations like token forgery, access to sensitive resources, and disruption of workloads. The lack of automated containment mechanisms increases dwell time and affects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical services.

Remediation

Create a risk-based Conditional Access policy for workload identities.

• Create a risk-based Conditional Access policy

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	High
Pillar	Identity
Category	Access control
Product	Entra ID
Feature	Conditional Access
Area	Applications and workload identities
ATT&CK	T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
Licence	Workload
Tenant	Workforce, External

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.