EIDSCA.AM01: Authentication Method - Microsoft Authenticator - State.
| ID | EIDSCA.AM01 |
| Severity | High |
| Suite | EIDSCA |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Authentication methods |
| Security area | Authentication |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:IA-2(1) Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users) | Multi-factor Authentication to Privileged Accountsnist-800-53-r5:IA-2(2) Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users) | Multi-factor Authentication to Non-privileged Accounts |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1110 |
| Reads from | Microsoft Graph |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”Whether the Authenticator App is enabled in the tenant.
enabled
Test script
Section titled “Test script”https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/policies/authenticationMethodsPolicy/authenticationMethodConfigurations('MicrosoftAuthenticator').state -eq 'enabled'Remediation action
Section titled “Remediation action”Microsoft Learn - Enable Authenticator App
Related links
Section titled “Related links”- Open in Graph Explorer
- microsoftAuthenticatorAuthenticationMethodConfiguration resource type - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn
- View in Microsoft Entra admin center
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