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Profile Applicability​

• Level 1

Description​

Require administrators to provide consent for the apps before use.

Rationale​

Unless Azure Active Directory is running as an identity provider for third-party applications, do not allow users to use their identity outside of the cloud environment. User profiles contain private information such as phone numbers and email addresses which could then be sold off to other third parties without requiring any further consent from the user.

Impact​

Enforcing this setting may create additional requests that administrators need to fulfill quite often.

Audit​

From Azure Portal​

  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
  2. Select Azure Active Directory
  3. Then Users
  4. Select User settings
  5. Then on Manage how end users launch and view their applications
  6. Under the Enterprise applications heading ensure that Users can consent to apps accessing company data on their behalf is set to No

Please note that at this point of time, there is no Azure CLI or other API commands available to programmatically conduct security assessment for this recommendation.

From Azure PowerShell​

Connect-MsolService
Get-MsolCompanyInformation | Select-Object UsersPermissionToUserConsentToAppEnabled

Command should return UsersPermissionToUserConsentToAppEnabled with the value of False

Remediation​

From Azure Portal​

  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
  2. Select Azure Active Directory.
  3. Select Users.
  4. Select User settings.
  5. Select Manage how end users launch and view their applications.
  6. Under the Enterprise applications heading, set Users can consent to apps accessing company data on their behalf to No.

References​

https://nicksnettravels.builttoroam.com/post/2017/01/24/Admin-Consent-for-Permissions-in-Azure-Active-Directory.aspx
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/manage-apps/configure-user-consent#configure-user-consent-to-applications
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-1-protect-and-limit-highly-privileged-users
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-2-restrict-administrative-access-to-business-critical-systems
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-governance-strategy#gs-2-define-enterprise-segmentation-strategy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-governance-strategy#gs-6-define-identity-and-privileged-access-strategy

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