Microsoft Entra IDOverview
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
- Open Groups | General
- Set
Owners can manage group membership requests in My GroupstoNo.
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
}
}
