Microsoft Entra IDOverview
Ensure that users are notified of their primary and secondary emails on password resets.
Rationale
User notification on password reset is a proactive way of confirming password reset activity. It helps the user to recognize unauthorized password reset activities.
Impact
Users will receive emails alerting them to password changes to both their primary and secondary emails.
Default Value
By default, Notify users on password resets? is set to "Yes".
Manual Audit
There is no customer-facing API available to check the Password Reset Policy. Please refer to the Remediation tab. After you ensure the setting is correctly set, exempt the corresponding asset.
If you need this checked automatically (it would make sense if you have multiple Entra ID tenants with multiple administrators who might change settings) and are willing to provide additional permissions, reach out to your Cyscale contact person.
Remediation guidance
From Azure Portal
- Open Users | Password reset | Notifications.
- Set
Notify users on password resets?toYes.
Multiple Remediation Paths
SERVICE-WIDE (RECOMMENDED when many resources are affected): Apply organization/tenant-level guardrails and baseline policies for the entire platform.
ASSET-LEVEL: Fix only the affected resources identified by this control.
PREVENTIVE: Add preventive policy checks to CI/CD and periodic posture scans.
References for Service-Wide Patterns
- Platform policy/governance and preventive control patterns should be applied tenant-wide where supported.
Query logic
These are the stored checks tied to this control.
All Entra tenants
Connectors
Covered asset types
Expected check: eq []
{
connectors(where: {cloudProvider: "entra"}) {
...AssetFragment
}
}
