Description:
Verifies that all privileged role assignments are managed by PIM.
Why:
Privileged role assignments made outside of Privileged Identity Management aren't properly monitored and may indicate an active attack.
Note: The check attempts to exclude emergency (Break Glass) accounts.
Configured: All privileged role assignments are managed by PIM
Not Configured: Some admins have permanent privileged role assignments.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Identity
Microsoft Licensing: Requires Premium (P2) 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: No in-product remediation — remediate in the Microsoft admin portals.
Compliance Frameworks:
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 1) — 1507
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 2) — 1507
Essential Eight (Maturity Level 3) — 1507, 1649
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 2) — 5.3.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 2) — 5.3.1
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 MT.1031 (module 1001)._
Sourced for this page:
Category — Maester test catalog (maester.dev/docs/tests) — test is graded against the "Privileged" 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 P2 · Essential Eight ML1 · Essential Eight ML2 · Essential Eight ML3 · CIS M365 v6 L2 · CIS M365 v7 L2