macOS Compliance policy is created and assigned

Overview

If compliance policies for macOS devices aren’t configured and assigned, threat actors can exploit unmanaged or noncompliant endpoints to gain unauthorized access to corporate resources, bypass security controls, and persist within the environment. Without enforced compliance, macOS devices can lack critical security configurations like data storage encryption, password requirements, and OS version controls. These gaps increase the risk of data leakage, privilege escalation, and lateral movement. Inconsistent device compliance weakens the organization’s security posture and makes it harder to detect and remediate threats before significant damage occurs.

Enforcing compliance policies ensures macOS devices meet core security requirements and supports Zero Trust by validating device health and reducing exposure to misconfigured endpoints.

Remediation

Create and assign Intune compliance policies to macOS devices to enforce organizational standards for secure access and management:

• Create and assign Intune compliance policies
• Review the macOS compliance settings you can manage with Intune

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	High
Effort to fix	Low
Impact on users	Medium
Pillar	Devices
Category	Device management
Product	Intune
Feature	Device compliance
Area	Devices and endpoints
ATT&CK	T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
Licence	Intune
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.