Microsoft Entra ID must use Privileged Identity Management (PIM).

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-270335	SRG-APP-000234	ENTR-ID-001900	SV-270335r1085641_rule	2025-03-17	1

Description
Emergency accounts are administrator accounts established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid account activation is required. Therefore, emergency account activation may bypass normal account authorization processes. If these accounts are automatically disabled, system maintenance during emergencies may not be possible, thus adversely affecting system availability. Emergency accounts are different from infrequently used accounts (i.e., local logon accounts used by system administrators when network or normal logon/access is not available). Infrequently used accounts also remain available and are not subject to automatic termination dates. However, an emergency account is normally a different account created for use by vendors or system maintainers. To address access requirements, many application developers choose to integrate their applications with enterprise-level authentication/access mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements. Such integration allows the application developer to offload those access control functions and focus on core application features and functionality.

Description

Emergency accounts are administrator accounts established in response to crisis situations where the need for rapid account activation is required. Therefore, emergency account activation may bypass normal account authorization processes. If these accounts are automatically disabled, system maintenance during emergencies may not be possible, thus adversely affecting system availability. Emergency accounts are different from infrequently used accounts (i.e., local logon accounts used by system administrators when network or normal logon/access is not available). Infrequently used accounts also remain available and are not subject to automatic termination dates. However, an emergency account is normally a different account created for use by vendors or system maintainers. To address access requirements, many application developers choose to integrate their applications with enterprise-level authentication/access mechanisms that meet or exceed access control policy requirements. Such integration allows the application developer to offload those access control functions and focus on core application features and functionality.

ℹ️ Check
Verify PIM is in use with just-in-time (JIT) access and employing the principle of least privilege access. 1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least an Authentication Policy Administrator. 2. Search for "Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management". 3. Navigate to "Management" and select "Microsoft Entra roles". 4. Expand the "Manage" menu and select "Assignments". 5. Select the "Active assignments" tab and for each privileged role, verify there are no roles with an end time of "Permanent". If any privileged roles are present with an end time of "Permanent", this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

Verify PIM is in use with just-in-time (JIT) access and employing the principle of least privilege access. 1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least an Authentication Policy Administrator. 2. Search for "Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management". 3. Navigate to "Management" and select "Microsoft Entra roles". 4. Expand the "Manage" menu and select "Assignments". 5. Select the "Active assignments" tab and for each privileged role, verify there are no roles with an end time of "Permanent". If any privileged roles are present with an end time of "Permanent", this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
Configure PIM to just-in-time (JIT) access and employ the principle of least privilege access. When assigning privileged roles to accounts, select the assignment type of "Eligible".