
- #Azure ad security defaults how to#
- #Azure ad security defaults update#
- #Azure ad security defaults free#
They aren’t appropriate for everyone, but if you’ve not enabled multi-factor authentication yet, or haven’t disabled legacy authentication, then this might want to be something you consider.Įvery Office 365 environment should be secure, and technically – they aren’t susceptible to vulnerabilities, are patched and up to date and regularly tested. We sincerely appreciate your partnership and commitment to ensuring our ecosystem runs on trust.Azure AD Security Defaults arrived recently and make it easier to implement some of the most common security settings in your Azure AD directory, and Office 365 environment.

If you have any questions for the partner security requirements, please check out additional resources here. Partners who are adopting security defaults as new: If security defaults do not meet your needs, consider other options. Enable security defaults with one-click for each partner tenant before February 29, 2020.Plan the transition from baseline policies to security defaults.Learn more about security defaults and enabling MFA for your organization.Partners who are currently using the baseline policies: Next steps and resources for security defaults Once a partner enables the security defaults, they will no longer be able to enable baseline policies. Security defaults are the general availability replacement of the preview baseline policies.Security defaults automatically excludes the Azure AD Connect Sync account.However, as most events related to compromised identities come from sign-in attempts using legacy authentication, partners are encouraged to move away from these older protocols. Blocking legacy authentication will not be enforced for partners at this time.Security defaults enforce all policies at once including the required MFA for admins policy, end user protection policy, and required MFA for service management.For the partners who are using conditional access, security defaults will not be available.Partners can consider other options if security defaults do not meet their needs.
#Azure ad security defaults how to#
Please review how to enable MFA for your organization with Azure AD and the key considerations below before enabling the security defaults. It offers a basic level of security enabled at no extra cost. Security defaults policy is one of the options that partners can choose to implement MFA for the security requirements depending on their business needs.
#Azure ad security defaults free#
Partners who want to use a free MFA (multi-factor authentication) enablement option should start using security defaults instead of baseline protection policies. Partners who are currently using the baseline polices on their partner tenants should enable the security defaults policy before February 29, 2020, in order to maintain their MFA enablement and avoid any service disruptions. Security defaults in Azure AD help protect your organization with preconfigured security settings for common attacks.

Effective February 29, 2020, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) “baseline” policies will be removed and replaced with “security defaults”, a more comprehensive set of protection policies for you and your customers.
#Azure ad security defaults update#
This is an important update regarding Microsoft's mandatory partner security requirements.
