Description:
Reports on the Microsoft Secure Score improvement action Set automatic email forwarding rules to be system controlled, part of Exchange Online Protection. Microsoft evaluates this control across your tenant's policies and Augmentt surfaces the result alongside your other posture checks.
Why:
Email forwarding can be useful, but can also pose a security risk due to the potential disclosure of information. Attackers might use this information to attack your organization or partners.
Configured: 100% of users are affected by policies that are configured securely
Not Configured: One or more applicable policies are not configured securely.
Scoring: Contributes up to 1 point to the Posture Recommendations score.
Category: Exchange
Microsoft Licensing: M365 Defender
Secure Score Impact: YES — Microsoft Secure Score control mdo_autoforwardingmode.
Remediation in Augmentt: Microsoft Defender portal
Compliance Frameworks:
NIST CSF 2.0 — PR.DS-02
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v6 (Level 1) — 6.2.1
CIS Microsoft 365 Benchmark v7 (Level 1) — 6.2.1
Microsoft documentation: