What are Security defaults in Azure AD?
Experience Level: Junior
Tags: Azure Active DirectoryAzure AD Conditional Access
Answer
Microsoft is making security defaults available to everyone, because managing security can be difficult. Identity-related attacks like password spray, replay, and phishing are common in today's environment. More than 99.9% of these identity-related attacks are stopped by using multifactor authentication (MFA) and blocking legacy authentication. The goal is to ensure that all organizations have at least a basic level of security enabled at no extra cost.
Security defaults make it easier to help protect your organization from these identity-related attacks with preconfigured security settings:
- Requiring all users to register for Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication.
- Requiring administrators to do multifactor authentication.
- Requiring users to do multifactor authentication when necessary.
- Blocking legacy authentication protocols.
- Protecting privileged activities like access to the Azure portal.
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