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Requiring MFA for all users
Hello Community, I am working towards improving our office 365 security score and noticed the MFA requirements for all users. Indeed, this has been enabled for all employees in our organization...
- Hi lawksalih,
Microsoft Security recommend the CIS Benchmarks for Securing your Office 365/Microsoft 365 tenant. This should be free to download here:
https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/microsoft_office/
In terms of disqualifying forwarders you would go into Secure Score, find this security control
Do not use mail forwarding rules to external domains
And set Ignore on it.
Hope that helps to answer your question.
Best, Chris
Vasil --
Thank you for your response and I do agree with you. However, I use the score as a baseline to improve the posture and how we can address the requirements by Microsoft. What other forms of measurement do you recommend I use as a baseline for the security posture.
Thanks again.
Hi lawksalih,
Microsoft Security recommend the CIS Benchmarks for Securing your Office 365/Microsoft 365 tenant. This should be free to download here:
https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/microsoft_office/
In terms of disqualifying forwarders you would go into Secure Score, find this security control
Do not use mail forwarding rules to external domains
And set Ignore on it.
Hope that helps to answer your question.
Best, Chris
Microsoft Security recommend the CIS Benchmarks for Securing your Office 365/Microsoft 365 tenant. This should be free to download here:
https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/microsoft_office/
In terms of disqualifying forwarders you would go into Secure Score, find this security control
Do not use mail forwarding rules to external domains
And set Ignore on it.
Hope that helps to answer your question.
Best, Chris
If I ignore the security control, does that mean that it will not be evaluated by Microsoft?
For example, I see a notice of "You have 380 of 526 user accounts that don't use MFA." I like this feature since it gives me an idea as to where to look and for which specific users for example.
- That should be the case. See here
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Security-Privacy-and-Compliance/New-Office-365-Secure-Score-features/ba-p/84855
Note that some controls have [Not Scored] against them which mean they are not linked to your secure score total. I think this is actually the case with the forwarder security control to external domains.
Best, Chris
