MT.1031: Privileged role on Control Plane are managed by PIM only.
| ID | MT.1031 |
| Severity | High |
| Suite | Mito |
| Product | Entra ID |
| Feature | Privileged Identity Management |
| Security area | Privileged access |
| Resource type | DirectoryRole |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Medium |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:AC-2(7) Account Management | Privileged User Accountsnist-800-53-r5:AC-6(5) Least Privilege | Privileged Accounts |
| MITRE ATT&CK | 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”Privileged roles on the Control Plane should be managed by Privileged Identity Management (PIM) only.
This test reads the Privileged Identity Management security alert Roles are being assigned outside of Privileged Identity Management (RolesAssignedOutsidePimAlert) 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. The alert is filtered to Control Plane roles (Enterprise Access Model tiering).
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 Roles are being assigned outside of Privileged Identity Management 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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