MT.1181: Conditional Access policy is present that blocks high agent risk sign-ins.
| ID | MT.1181 |
| Severity | High |
| Suite | Mito |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Conditional Access |
| Security area | AI and agents |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:AC-2(12) Account Management | Account Monitoring for Atypical Usagenist-800-53-r5:AC-2(13) Account Management | Disable Accounts for High-risk Individuals |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1078.004 |
| Reads from | Microsoft Graph |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”Checks whether your tenant has at least one enabled Conditional Access policy that blocks agent identities detected as high risk.
This check looks for enabled Microsoft Entra (Azure AD) Conditional Access policies that target agent identity with risk levels set to High and enforce a Block grant control.
Agents (service or managed identities used by automation or AI) that are flagged as high risk by Entra ID Protection should be prevented from authenticating to prevent potentially compromised AI agents from accessing organizational resources.
Remediation action:
Section titled “Remediation action:”To remediate, create or update a Conditional Access policy that:
- Users or agents: all agent identities.
- Target resources: All resources (formerly ‘All cloud apps’)
- Conditions:
Agent riskto includehigh. - Uses a grant control that includes the
Blockaction.
Refer to Microsoft documentation when creating policies to ensure correct targeting and scope.
Related links
Section titled “Related links”- Microsoft doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/entra/identity/conditional-access/policy-agent-block-high-risk
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