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1.20 Ensure that 'Owners can manage group membership requests in the Access Panel' is set to 'No' (Manual)​

Profile Applicability​

• Level 2

Description​

Restrict security group management to administrators only.

Rationale​

Restricting security group management to administrators only prohibits users from making changes to security groups. This ensures that security groups are appropriately managed and their management is not delegated to non-administrators.

Impact​

Group Membership for user accounts will need to be handled by Admins and cause administrative overhead.

Audit​

From Azure Portal​

  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
  2. Select Azure Active Directory
  3. Then Groups
  4. Select General in settings
  5. Ensure that Owners can manage group membership requests in the Access Panel 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.

Remediation​

From Azure Portal​

  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
  2. Select Azure Active Directory
  3. Then Groups
  4. Select General in settings
  5. Set Owners can manage group membership requests in the Access Panel to No

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

References​

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-accessmanagement-self-service-group-management#making-a-group-available-for-end-user-self-service
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-5-automate-entitlement-management
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-8-choose-approval-process-for-microsoft-support
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