MT.1030: Eligible role assignments on Control Plane are in use by administrators.
| ID | MT.1030 |
| Severity | High |
| Suite | Mito |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Privileged Identity Management |
| Security area | Privileged access |
| Resource type | DirectoryRole |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:AC-6 Least Privilegenist-800-53-r5:AC-2(3) Account Management | Disable Accounts |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1078.004 |
| Reads from | Microsoft Graph |
| Licence needed | AAD_PREMIUM_P2 |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”Eligible role assignments on the Control Plane should be in use by administrators.
This test reads the Privileged Identity Management security alert Administrators aren’t using their privileged roles (RedundantAssignmentAlert) from Microsoft Graph and passes when the alert is not active or has no affected role assignments. Emergency access (break glass) accounts are excluded from the affected items. The alert is filtered to Control Plane roles (Enterprise Access Model tiering).
Remediation action
Section titled “Remediation action”- In the Microsoft Entra admin center, browse to ID Governance > Privileged Identity Management > Microsoft Entra roles > Alerts.
- Select the Administrators aren’t using their privileged roles alert and follow its mitigation steps.
Related links
Section titled “Related links”Mito check. Author: Cloud-Architekt; contributors: f-bader, merill, thomas-s-schmidt, nathanmcnulty. Open-source licences.
Open-source licences. CIS Benchmark material © Center for Internet Security, Inc.; CISA SCuBA baselines are public domain (CC0).
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