

Protecting privileged activities like access.Īzure services management services are protected as well. It applies to both – privileged accounts and regular user accounts. It takes into account factors like the user's location, a device that is being used to perform authentication, user's role and task. Requiring users to do multifactor authentication when necessary.Īzure AD will decide when it is necessary to prompt the user for MFA authentication. Once security defaults are enabled, all authentication requests using legacy protocols will be blocked.

Exchange Active Sync basic authentication.Clients that don't use modern authentication (for example, an Office 2010 client).Blocking legacy authentication protocols. Privileged authentication administratorģ.This policy applies to all users granted any of the following roles: Privileged access users will be required to pass the MFA challenge every time they log in. Requiring administrators to do multifactor authentication. After 14 days, users will not be able to log in until completing MFA registration. Requiring all users to register for Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication.Īll users in the tenant (this setting cannot be scoped) must register for MFA within 14 days from the first logon after security default activation. A single toggle (Security defaults feature is disabled by default) enables the following 5 security policies: 1. What are Azure AD security defaults?Īzure AD security defaults improves protection against most common identity-related attacks.
AZURE SECURITY DEFAULTS FOR FREE
Security defaults are available for free to all organizations. If you are using Azure AD free, this feature might be super useful for you and can highly improve your organization's security with just a single switch. Mostly because it's not as visible as other features used to secure Azure Active Directory. Security Defaults feature is not new, but it is still unknown to many organizations.
