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Set 'Users can create security groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell' to 'No' (Manual)
Profile Applicability
• Level 2
Description
Restrict security group creation to administrators only.
Rationale
When creating security groups is enabled, all users in the directory are allowed to create new security groups and add members to those groups. Unless a business requires this day-to-day delegation, security group creation should be restricted to administrators only.
Impact
Enabling this setting could create a number of requests that would need to be managed by an administrator.
Audit
From Azure Portal
- From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
- Select
Groups
- Then
General
in setting - Ensure that
Users can create security groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell
is set toNo
Please note that at this point of time, there is no Azure CLI or other API commands available to programmatically conduct security assessment for this recommendation.
Remediation
From Azure Portal
- From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
- Select Azure Active Directory.
- Select Groups.
- Select General under Settings.
- Set Users can create security groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell to No.
Please note that at this point in time, there is no Azure CLI or other API commands available to programmatically conduct security configuration for this recommendation.
References
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-accessmanagement-self-service-group-management#making-a-group-available-for-end-user-self-service
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-governance-strategy#gs-6-define-identity-and-privileged-access-strategy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-governance-strategy#gs-2-define-enterprise-segmentation-strategy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-1-protect-and-limit-highly-privileged-users
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-5-automate-entitlement-management
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-2-restrict-administrative-access-to-business-critical-systems