Microsoft Entra IDOverview
Restrict access to the Microsoft Entra ID administration portal to administrators only.
NOTE: This only affects the access to the Entra ID administrator's web portal. This setting does not prohibit privileged users from using other methods, such as Rest API or Powershell, to obtain sensitive information from Microsoft Entra ID.
Rationale
The Microsoft Entra ID administrative center has sensitive data and permission settings. To avoid exposure, all non-administrators should be prohibited from accessing any Microsoft Entra ID data in the administration center.
Impact
All administrative tasks will need to be done by Administrators, causing additional overhead in managing users and resources.
Default Value
By default, Restrict access to Microsoft Entra admin center 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 Users | User settings
- Set
Restrict access to Microsoft Entra admin centertoYes.
Conditional Access
Another (and more secure) way to manage access to administrative portals (and APIs) is using Conditional Access policies. Refer to the Microsoft documentation for more
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
}
}
