EIDSCA.AM09: Authentication Method - Microsoft Authenticator - Show geographic location in push and passwordless notifications.
| ID | EIDSCA.AM09 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Suite | EIDSCA |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Authentication methods |
| Security area | Authentication |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:IA-2(13) Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users) | Out-of-band Authenticationnist-800-53-r5:IA-2(1) Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users) | Multi-factor Authentication to Privileged Accounts |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1621 |
| Reads from | Microsoft Graph |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”Determines whether the user’s Authenticator app will show them the geographic location of where the authentication request originated from.
Test script
Section titled “Test script”https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations('MicrosoftAuthenticator').featureSettings.displayLocationInformationRequiredState.state -eq 'enabled'Related links
Section titled “Related links”- Open in Graph Explorer
- microsoftAuthenticatorAuthenticationMethodConfiguration resource type - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn
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