EIDPIM-012: Emergency Access Account Validation
- Plataforma
- Entra ID / M365
- Categoría
- Entra ID Privileged Identity Management
- Severidad
- Critical
- Pilar de Zero Trust
- Identity (peso 2)
- Fixtures de referencia
- 3
- Cobertura de ramas
- Observada: los fixtures prueban los veredictos que ejercitan
- Procedencia
- baseline
Qué comprueba
Emergency access (break-glass) accounts are critical safeguards that ensure administrative access to the tenant when normal authentication mechanisms fail, such as during MFA outages, Conditional Access misconfigurations, or identity provider failures. At least 2 break-glass accounts should exist, be cloud-only, excluded from all Conditional Access policies, and protected with strong authentication such as FIDO2 keys stored securely. Without properly configured break-glass accounts, an organization risks permanent lockout from its own tenant
Valor recomendado
At least 2 emergency access accounts that are cloud-only, permanently assigned Global Administrator, excluded from all Conditional Access policies, with FIDO2 or long complex passwords stored securely
Remediación
Create at least 2 dedicated emergency access accounts that are cloud-only (not synced), assign permanent Global Administrator role, exclude from all Conditional Access policies, and configure with FIDO2 security keys or very long complex passwords stored in a physical safe. Configure monitoring alerts for any sign-in activity on these accounts and test the break-glass procedure quarterly
Veredictos probados con fixtures
Cada veredicto de esta tabla está probado por un fixture de referencia en la suite de pruebas que valida el módulo. La tabla se deriva de la última ejecución en verde; no puede editarse a mano.
| Escenario | Veredicto esperado |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| known-bad | WARN |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Mapeos a marcos de referencia
- NIST SP 800-53
- AC-2(2), CP-2
- CIS M365 Benchmark
- 1.1.4
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1078.004