EIDCA-003: CA Policies in Report-Only Mode

Platform
Entra ID / M365
Category
Entra ID Conditional Access
Severity
Medium
Zero Trust pillar
Identity (weight 3)
Golden fixtures
3
Branch coverage
Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
Provenance
baseline

What it checks

Conditional Access policies left in report-only mode do not enforce security controls and only log what would have happened. Policies that have completed testing should be switched to the enabled state to actively protect the environment.

Recommended value

No policies in report-only mode unless actively being tested with a defined transition timeline

Remediation

Review all Conditional Access policies currently in report-only mode and evaluate their sign-in log impact data. For policies that have been validated and show acceptable impact, change the state from report-only to enabled. Establish a policy lifecycle process that defines maximum report-only durations before enforcement.

Fixture-proven verdicts

Every verdict below is proven by a golden fixture in the module's gating test suite. This table derives from the last green run; it cannot be edited by hand.

Verdict scenarios for EIDCA-003
ScenarioExpected verdict
cleanPASS
known-badFAIL
throttledNot Assessed

Framework mappings

CIS M365 Benchmark
5.2.1