Description:
Verifies that passwords do not expire.
Why:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), OMB, and Microsoft have published guidance indicating mandated periodic password changes make user accounts less secure. For example, OMB-22-09 states, "Password policies must not require use of special characters or regular rotation."
Configured: Passwords do not expire.
Not Configured: Passwords policies are set to expire.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Identity
Microsoft Licensing: Works with Basic 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.6.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 1.3.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 1.3.1
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.6.1 (module 1031)._
Sourced for this page:
Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test is graded against the "Entra ID Free" 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 · M365 Basic · CIS M365 v6 L1 · CIS M365 v7 L1 · CISA SCuBA