MT.1032: Limited number of Global Admins are assigned.
| ID | MT.1032 |
| Severity | High |
| Suite | Mito |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Privileged Identity Management |
| Security area | Privileged access |
| Resource type | User |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Medium |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:AC-6(5) Least Privilege | Privileged Accounts |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1078.004, T1098.003 |
| 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”A limited number of Global Administrators should be assigned.
This test reads the Privileged Identity Management security alert There are too many global administrators (TooManyGlobalAdminsAssignedToTenantAlert) 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.
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 There are too many global administrators 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.
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