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Checks based on open-source community checks and Microsoft guidance, across Entra ID, Exchange Online, Defender, Intune, Purview, Teams and more.

238 checks: 92 High, 102 Medium, 38 Low, 6 Info.

ID Title Severity Product
AZDO.1000 Azure DevOps OAuth apps can access resources in your organization through OAuth. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1001 Identities can connect to your organization’s Git repos through SSH. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1002 Log Audit Events. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1003 Restrict public projects. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1004 Additional protections when using public package registries. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1005 IP Conditional Access policy validation. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1006 External Users access. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1007 Team and project administrator are allowed to invite new users. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1008 Request access to Azure DevOps by e-mail notifications to administrators. (not run by Mito) Low Azure DevOps
AZDO.1009 Feedback Collection. (not run by Mito) Info Azure DevOps
AZDO.1010 Audit streaming. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1011 Project Resource Limits. (not run by Mito) Info Azure DevOps
AZDO.1012 Work Items Tags Limits. (not run by Mito) Info Azure DevOps
AZDO.1013 Organization Owner should not be an individual. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1014 Anonymous access to pipeline badges. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1015 Limit variables that can be set at queue time. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1016 Limit job authorization scope to current project for non-release pipelines. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1017 Limit job authorization scope to current project for classic release pipelines. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1018 Protect access to repositories in YAML pipelines. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1019 Stage chooser. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1020 Creation of classic build pipelines. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1021 Creation of classic release pipelines. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1022 Limit building pull requests from forked GitHub repositories. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1023 Disable Marketplace tasks. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1024 Disable Node 6 tasks. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1025 Enable shell tasks arguments validation. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1026 Enable automatic enrollment to Advanced Security for Azure DevOps. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1027 Disable showing Gravatar images for users outside of your enterprise. (not run by Mito) Low Azure DevOps
AZDO.1028 Disable creation of TFVC repositories. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1029 Storage Usage Limit. (not run by Mito) Info Azure DevOps
AZDO.1030 Project Collection Administrators. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1031 Validate SSH Key Expiration. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1032 (Tenant) Restrict creation of global Personal Access Tokens. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1033 (Tenant) Enable automatic revocation of leaked Personal Access Tokens. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1034 (Tenant) Restrict creation of new Azure DevOps organizations. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1035 (Tenant) Restrict Personal Access Token lifespan. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1036 (Tenant) Restrict Personal Access Token full scope. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1037 (Organization) Restrict Personal Access Token creation. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1038 (Organization) Disallow extensions from accessing resources on the local network. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1039 (Organization) Secret Protection: new repositories enrolled automatically. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1040 (Organization) Secret Protection: existing repositories enrolled. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1041 (Organization) Secret Protection: push protection blocks secret commits. (not run by Mito) High Azure DevOps
AZDO.1042 (Organization) Code Security: new repositories enrolled automatically. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1043 (Organization) Code Security: existing repositories enrolled. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1044 (Organization) Code Security: dependency and CodeQL alerts enabled. (not run by Mito) Medium Azure DevOps
AZDO.1045 (Organization) Copilot code review: allowed for repositories. (not run by Mito) Info Azure DevOps
MT.1001 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured with device compliance. Medium Entra ID
MT.1002 App management restrictions on applications and service principals is configured and enabled. Medium Entra ID
MT.1003 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured with All Apps. High Entra ID
MT.1004 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured with All Apps and All Users. High Entra ID
MT.1005 All Conditional Access policies are configured to exclude at least one emergency/break glass account or group. High Entra ID
MT.1006 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require MFA for admins. High Entra ID
MT.1007 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require MFA for all users. High Entra ID
MT.1008 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require MFA for Azure management. High Entra ID
MT.1009 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to block other legacy authentication. High Entra ID
MT.1010 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to block legacy authentication for Exchange ActiveSync. High Entra ID
MT.1011 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to secure security info registration only from a trusted location. High Entra ID
MT.1012 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require MFA for risky sign-ins. High Entra ID
MT.1013 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require new password when user risk is high. High Entra ID
MT.1014 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require compliant or Entra hybrid joined devices for admins. High Entra ID
MT.1015 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to block access for unknown or unsupported device platforms. Medium Entra ID
MT.1016 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to require MFA for guest access. High Entra ID
MT.1017 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to enforce non persistent browser session for non-corporate devices. Medium Entra ID
MT.1018 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to enforce sign-in frequency for non-corporate devices. Medium Entra ID
MT.1019 At least one Conditional Access policy is configured to enable application enforced restrictions. Medium Entra ID
MT.1020 All Conditional Access policies are configured to exclude Directory/OnPremises synchronization accounts or do not scope them. Medium Entra ID
MT.1021 Security Defaults are enabled. High Entra ID
MT.1022 All users utilizing a P1 license should be licensed. Low Entra ID
MT.1023 All users utilizing a P2 license should be licensed. Low Entra ID
MT.1024 Entra recommendations should be completed. Medium Entra ID
MT.1025 No external user with permanent role assignment on Control Plane. High Entra ID
MT.1026 No hybrid user with permanent role assignment on Control Plane. High Entra ID
MT.1027 No Service Principal with Client Secret and permanent role assignment on Control Plane. High Entra ID
MT.1028 No user with mailbox and permanent role assignment on Control Plane. High Entra ID
MT.1029 Stale accounts are not assigned to privileged roles. High Entra ID
MT.1030 Eligible role assignments on Control Plane are in use by administrators. High Entra ID
MT.1031 Privileged role on Control Plane are managed by PIM only. High Entra ID
MT.1032 Limited number of Global Admins are assigned. High Entra ID
MT.1033 Users should be blocked from using legacy authentication. High Entra ID
MT.1034 Emergency access users should not be blocked. High Entra ID
MT.1035 All security groups assigned to Conditional Access Policies should be protected by RMAU. High Entra ID
MT.1036 All excluded objects should have a fallback include in another policy. Medium Entra ID
MT.1037 Only users with Presenter role are allowed to present in Teams meetings Low Teams
MT.1038 Conditional Access policies should not include or exclude deleted groups. Medium Entra ID
MT.1039 Ensure MailTips are enabled for end users Low Exchange Online
MT.1041 Ensure users installing Outlook add-ins is not allowed Medium Exchange Online
MT.1042 Restrict dial-in users from bypassing a meeting lobby Medium Teams
MT.1043 Ensure Spam confidence level (SCL) is configured in mail transport rules with specific domains Medium Exchange Online
MT.1044 Ensure modern authentication for Exchange Online is enabled High Exchange Online
MT.1045 Only invited users should be automatically admitted to Teams meetings Medium Teams
MT.1046 Restrict anonymous users from joining meetings Medium Teams
MT.1047 Restrict anonymous users from starting Teams meetings Medium Teams
MT.1048 Limit external participants from having control in a Teams meeting Medium Teams
MT.1049 Conditional Access policies for User Risk and Sign-in Risk should be configured separately. High Entra ID
MT.1050 Apps with high-risk permissions having a direct path to Global Administrator High Entra ID
MT.1051 Apps with high-risk permissions having an indirect path to Global Administrator High Entra ID
MT.1052 At least one Conditional Access policy is targeting the Device Code authentication flow. High Entra ID
MT.1053 Ensure intune device clean-up rule is configured Low Intune
MT.1054 Ensure built-in Device Compliance Policy marks devices with no compliance policy assigned as ‘Not compliant’ Medium Intune
MT.1055 Microsoft 365 Group (and Team) creation should be restricted to approved users. Medium Entra ID
MT.1056 Ensure that no person has permanent access to all Azure subscriptions at the root scope (not run by Mito) High Azure
MT.1057 App registrations should no longer use secrets. Medium Entra ID
MT.1058 Exchange application access policies must be configured. Medium Entra ID
MT.1059 Microsoft Defender for Identity health issues should be resolved Medium Defender
MT.1060 Drift folders should match their baseline. Medium Microsoft 365
MT.1061 Device registration MFA control conflicts with Conditional Access policies. Medium Entra ID
MT.1062 Ensure Direct Send is set to be rejected Medium Exchange Online
MT.1063 All App registration owners should have MFA registered High Entra ID
MT.1064 Ensure that write permissions are required to create new management groups (not run by Mito) Medium Azure
MT.1065 Ensure all Recovery Services Vaults have soft delete enabled (not run by Mito) High Azure
MT.1066 Conditional Access policies should not reference non-existent users, groups, or roles. Medium Entra ID
MT.1067 Authentication method policies should not reference non-existent groups. Low Entra ID
MT.1068 Restrict non-admin users from creating tenants. Medium Entra ID
MT.1069 Restrict non-admin users from creating security groups. Low Entra ID
MT.1070 Restrict device join to selected users/groups or none. Medium Entra ID
MT.1071 At least one Conditional Access policy explicitly includes Azure DevOps. Medium Entra ID
MT.1072 Conditional Access policies should not use the deprecated Approved Client App grant. High Entra ID
MT.1073 Soft- and hard-matching of synchronized objects should be blocked. Medium Entra ID
MT.1074 Ensure no more than 100 outbound mails per day are sent using the .onmicrosoft.com domain Low Exchange Online
MT.1075 Require explicit assignment of Third Party Entra Apps. Medium Entra ID
MT.1076 MOERA SHOULD NOT be used for sent mail Low Exchange Online
MT.1077 App registrations with privileged API permissions should not have owners. Medium Defender
MT.1078 App registrations with highly privileged directory roles should not have owners. Medium Defender
MT.1079 Privileged API permissions on service principals should not remain unused. Medium Defender
MT.1080 Credentials, tokens, or cookies from highly privileged users should not be exposed on vulnerable endpoints. Medium Defender
MT.1081 Hybrid users should not be assigned Entra ID role assignments. Medium Defender
MT.1083 Ensure Delicensing Resiliency is enabled Low Exchange Online
MT.1084 Microsoft Entra seamless single sign-on should be disabled for all domains in EntraID Connect servers. High Entra ID
MT.1085 Pending approvals for Critical Asset Management should not be present. Low Defender
MT.1086 Devices should not share both critical and non-critical user credentials. Low Defender
MT.1087 Devices should not be publicly exposed with remotely exploitable, highly likely to be exploited, high or critical severity CVE’s. High Defender
MT.1088 Devices with critical credentials should be protected by TPM. Medium Defender
MT.1089 Devices with critical credentials should be protected by Credential Guard. Medium Defender
MT.1090 Global Administrator role should not be added as local administrator on the device during Microsoft Entra join Medium Entra ID
MT.1091 Registering user should not be added as local administrator on the device during Microsoft Entra join Medium Entra ID
MT.1092 Intune APNS certificate should be valid for more than 30 days High Intune
MT.1093 Apple Automated Device Enrollment Tokens should be valid for more than 30 days High Intune
MT.1094 Apple Volume Purchase Program Tokens should be valid for more than 30 days High Intune
MT.1095 Android Enterprise account connection should be healthy High Intune
MT.1096 Ensure at least one Intune Multi Admin Approval policy is configured Medium Intune
MT.1097 Ensure all Intune Certificate Connectors are healthy and running supported versions High Intune
MT.1098 Mobile Threat Defense Connectors should be healthy High Intune
MT.1099 Windows Diagnostic Data Processing should be enabled Low Intune
MT.1100 Intune Diagnostic Settings should include Audit Logs (not run by Mito) High Intune
MT.1101 Default Branding Profile should be customized Low Intune
MT.1102 Windows Feature Update Policy Settings should not reference end of support builds High Intune
MT.1103 Ensure Intune RBAC groups are protected by Restricted Management Administrative Units or Role Assignable groups High Intune
MT.1105 Ensure MDM Authority is set to Intune Low Intune
MT.1106 Catalog resources must have valid roles (no stale / removed app roles or SPNs). Low Entra ID
MT.1107 Access packages and catalogs should not reference deleted groups. Low Entra ID
MT.1108 Access packages should not reference inactive or orphaned assignment policies. Low Entra ID
MT.1109 Access package approval workflows must have valid approvers. Low Entra ID
MT.1110 No catalog should contain resources without any associated access packages. Low Entra ID
MT.1111 High privileged user should be linked to an identity. Low Defender
MT.1112 Privileged user accounts should not remain enabled when the linked primary account is disabled. Medium Defender
MT.1113 AI agents should not be shared with broad access control policies. High Copilot Studio
MT.1114 AI agents should require user authentication. High Copilot Studio
MT.1115 AI agents should not have risky HTTP configurations. Medium Copilot Studio
MT.1116 AI agents should not send email with AI-controlled inputs. High Copilot Studio
MT.1117 Published AI agents should not be dormant. Low Copilot Studio
MT.1118 AI agents should not use author (maker) authentication for connections. Medium Copilot Studio
MT.1119 AI agents should not have hard-coded credentials in topics. High Copilot Studio
MT.1120 AI agents should not use MCP server tools without review. Medium Copilot Studio
MT.1121 AI agents with generative orchestration should have custom instructions. Medium Copilot Studio
MT.1122 AI agents should not have orphaned ownership. Medium Copilot Studio
MT.1123 Ensure BitLocker full disk encryption is configured High Intune
MT.1147 Do not sync krbtgt_AzureAD to Entra ID. High Entra ID
MT.1148 Archive Scanning should be enabled. Medium Defender
MT.1149 Behavior Monitoring should be enabled. High Defender
MT.1150 Cloud Protection should be enabled. High Defender
MT.1151 Email Scanning should be enabled. Medium Defender
MT.1152 Script Scanning should be enabled. High Defender
MT.1153 Real-time Monitoring should be enabled. High Defender
MT.1154 Full Scan Removable Drives should be enabled. Medium Defender
MT.1155 Full Scan Mapped Drives should be disabled for performance. Low Defender
MT.1156 Scanning Network Files should be enabled. Medium Defender
MT.1157 CPU Load Factor should be optimized (20-30%). Low Defender
MT.1158 Scan should be scheduled. Low Defender
MT.1159 Quick Scan Time configuration is not required. Info Defender
MT.1160 Signatures should be checked before scan. Low Defender
MT.1161 Cloud Block Level should be High or higher. Medium Defender
MT.1162 Cloud Extended Timeout should be 30-50 seconds. Low Defender
MT.1163 Signature Update Interval should be 1-4 hours. Low Defender
MT.1164 PUA Protection should be enabled. Medium Defender
MT.1165 Network Protection should be enabled. High Defender
MT.1166 Local Admin Merge should be disabled. Medium Defender
MT.1167 Real-Time Scan Direction should cover both directions. Medium Defender
MT.1168 Cleaned Malware should be retained for at least 30 days. Low Defender
MT.1169 Catch-up Full Scan should be disabled. Low Defender
MT.1170 Catch-up Quick Scan should be disabled. Low Defender
MT.1171 Sample Submission should send safe samples automatically. Medium Defender
MT.1172 Unified audit log ingestion is enabled. High Purview
MT.1173 Sensitivity labels are published for files used by Microsoft 365 Copilot. Medium Purview
MT.1174 Insider Risk Management policy for Risky AI usage is enabled. Medium Purview
MT.1175 DLP policy is configured for the Microsoft 365 Copilot location. High Purview
MT.1176 Retention policy is configured for the Microsoft Copilot location. Medium Purview
MT.1177 Ensure LAPS Configuration Policy is properly set. Medium Intune
MT.1178 Ensure ASR Rules are configured correctly. High Intune
MT.1179 Ensure App Control for Business is enabled. High Intune
MT.1180 Ensure Managed Installer Rules are configured correctly. Medium Intune
MT.1181 Conditional Access policy is present that blocks high agent risk sign-ins. High Entra ID
MT.1182 Mature DMARC policy SHALL be published for every Entra managed and verified domain. Medium Entra ID
MT.1183 Temporary bypass for onPremisesObjectIdentifier updates should be disabled. Medium Entra ID
MT.1184 Conditional Access policy without any target resources configured. Medium Entra ID
MT.1185 Block legacy MSOnline (MSOL) PowerShell module. Medium Entra ID
MT.1186 Require explicit assignment of high-privilege first-party Entra Apps. Medium Entra ID
MT.1187 The Microsoft 365 traffic forwarding profile in Global Secure Access should be enabled. Medium Entra ID
MT.1188 Entra Private Access applications should be covered by a Conditional Access policy that requires a managed device. Medium Entra ID
MT.1189 Groups assigned to Global Secure Access traffic forwarding profiles should not be nested. Medium Entra ID
MT.1190 Entra Private Access applications should not use the Default connector group. Low Entra ID
MT.1191 Break-glass accounts should be excluded from the Compliant Network Conditional Access policy. Medium Entra ID
MT.1192 Groups assigned to Entra Private Access applications should not be nested. Low Entra ID
MT.1193 Entra Private Access application segments should avoid broad or risky destinations. Medium Entra ID
MT.1194 The baseline Global Secure Access security profile should enforce a threat-intelligence floor. Medium Entra ID
MT.1195 The Quick Access app should not be subject to a sign-in frequency Conditional Access control. Low Entra ID
MT.1196 Review who can change attributes used by dynamic group rules. Medium Entra ID
MT.1197 Remove memberOf rules. Medium Entra ID
MT.1198 App registration certificates should not have excessive validity periods. Medium Entra ID
MT.1199 App registration credentials should not be expired or expiring soon. Low Entra ID
MT.1200 Agent Identities should have an active Agent Identity Blueprint Principal (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1201 Agent Users should have an existing parent Agent Identity (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1203 Agent Identity Blueprint Principals should have an existing Blueprint (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1204 Agent Identities, Blueprint Principals, and Blueprints should have active, enabled owners (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1205 Agent Identity Blueprints and Blueprint Principals should have assigned sponsors (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1206 Enabled Agent Identities should have active sign-in activity within the last 180 days (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1207 Foreign or multi-tenant Agent Blueprint Principals and Agent Identities should not hold privileged directory roles (Preview). High Entra ID
MT.1208 Agent Identity Blueprints should not have expired, excessive, or long-lived client credentials (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1209 Agent Identities and Blueprint Principals should not be assigned privileged Entra directory roles (Preview). High Entra ID
MT.1210 Agent Users should not have privileged directory roles or membership in role-assignable groups (Preview). High Entra ID
MT.1211 Agent Identity Blueprints should not use the allAllowed inheritance pattern for delegated scopes or application roles (Preview). High Entra ID
MT.1212 Agent Identity Blueprint Principals should require assignment for the application roles they expose (Preview). Medium Entra ID
MT.1213 Agent Identity Blueprints should not use wildcard or plain-http redirect URIs (Preview). High Entra ID
MT.1214 Ensure macOS compliance policy requires System Integrity Protection. Medium Intune
MT.1215 Ensure Gatekeeper restricts macOS app download locations. Medium Intune
MT.1216 Ensure macOS compliance policy requires a Defender machine risk score level. Medium Intune
MT.1217 Ensure macOS LAPS is configured on Automated Device Enrollment profiles. High Intune
MT.1223 Agent Identities should not have high-risk Microsoft Graph permissions (Preview). High Entra ID
MT.1224 Microsoft-managed Conditional Access policies should not be left in report-only mode. Low Entra ID

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