Description:

Verifies that weak authenticators methods are disabled.

Why:

SMS, voice call, and email OTP are the weakest authenticators. This policy forces users to use stronger MFA methods.

Configured: Weak authenticators methods are disabled.

Not Configured: Weak authenticator methods are enabled.

Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.

Category: Identity

Microsoft Licensing: Requires Premium (P1) licensing

Secure Score Impact: Not verified. No Microsoft Secure Score control could be confirmed for this setting from published sources. See the note in README.md before publishing this field.

Remediation in Augmentt: Configure directly in Augmentt (Configure tab); Guided remediation steps (Instructions tab)

Compliance Frameworks:

  • CISA SCuBA — MS.AAD.3.5

Microsoft documentation:


_KB status: new — this check is not yet documented in the knowledge base._

_Source: Sourced from the open-source Maester project and extended by Augmentt with multi-tenant support, compliance mapping and in-product remediation. Check ID CISA.MS.AAD.3.5 (module 1038)._

Sourced for this page:

  • Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test is graded against the "Entra ID P1" tier, so it evaluates a Microsoft Entra ID setting

  • Secure Score — No Microsoft Secure Score control name is published for this setting and Augmentt does not read one.


Draft metadata — apply these as Stonly tags in the console, then delete this block. The Stonly API cannot set tags, so they are recorded here instead.
Tags: posture-check · compliance-audit · Microsoft Entra ID · Entra ID P1 · CISA SCuBA