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Ensure 'Owners can manage group membership requests in My Groups' is set to 'No'

Restrict security group management to administrators only.

Category

Controls

Low

Applies to

Microsoft Entra ID

Coverage

1 queries

Asset types

1 covered

Overview

Restrict security group management to administrators only.

Rationale

Restricting security group management to administrators only prohibits users from making changes to security groups. This ensures that security groups are appropriately managed and their management is not delegated to non-administrators.

Impact

Group Membership for user accounts will need to be handled by Admins and cause administrative overhead.

Default Value

By default, Owners can manage group membership requests in My Groups is set to No.

Manual Audit

There is no customer-facing API available to check this setting. 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

  1. Open Groups | General
  2. Set Owners can manage group membership requests in My Groups to No.

Service-wide remediation

Recommended when many resources are affected: fix the platform baseline first so new resources inherit the secure setting, then remediate the existing flagged resources in batches.

Microsoft Entra ID

Use tenant-wide Conditional Access, role settings, authentication policies, and identity governance baselines so the control is enforced centrally.

Operational rollout

  1. Fix the baseline first at the account, subscription, project, cluster, or tenant scope that owns this control.
  2. Remediate the currently affected resources in batches, starting with internet-exposed and production assets.
  3. Re-scan and track approved exceptions with an owner and expiry date.

Query logic

These are the stored checks tied to this control.

All Entra tenants

Connectors

Microsoft Entra ID

Covered asset types

Connector

Expected check: eq []

{
  connectors(where: {cloudProvider: "entra"}) {
    ...AssetFragment
  }
}
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