EIDGOV-003: Access-package assignments are time-bound
- Platform
- Entra ID / M365
- Category
- Entitlement Management
- Severity
- Low
- Zero Trust pillar
- Identity (weight 2)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
An access-package assignment policy configured with no expiration grants perpetual access — the opposite of just-in-time. Time-bounding assignments forces re-request and re-approval, limiting how long any grant survives unreviewed. This check flags assignment policies whose expiration is set to never.
Recommended value
Access-package assignment policies expire assignments after a bounded period rather than granting perpetual access
Remediation
In each assignment policy's lifecycle settings, set an assignment expiration (a number of days or a fixed end date) instead of 'Assignments never expire'. Users re-request through the access-package flow when they still need the access, keeping grants deliberate.
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.
| Scenario | Expected verdict |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| not-assessed | Not Assessed |
| warn | WARN |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-2, AC-2(3)
- CIS M365 Benchmark
- 1.1.1