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MT.1005: All Conditional Access policies are configured to exclude at least one emergency/break glass account or group.

ID MT.1005
Severity High
Suite Mito
Product Entra ID
Feature Conditional Access
Security area Privileged access
Resource type ConditionalAccessPolicy
User impact of fixing Low
Effort to fix Low
Reads from Microsoft Graph
Licence needed AAD_PREMIUM

It is recommended to have at least one emergency/break glass account or account group excluded from all Conditional Access policies. This allows for emergency access to the tenant in case of a misconfiguration or other issues.

See Manage emergency access accounts in Microsoft Entra ID - Microsoft Learn


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