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zt_id_012 — No emergency access (break-glass) accounts configured

Summary

Severity: Critical · Pillar: Identity · Chain role: ANCHOR

Description

Emergency access accounts (break-glass) ensure administrative access when normal authentication is unavailable. Microsoft recommends at least two cloud-only emergency accounts excluded from conditional access. Without them, a tenant lockout becomes unrecoverable.

Mapping

Framework Control / Reference
NIST 800-53 AC-6(1)
NIST 800-207 Tenet 6 - Dynamic access policy and least privilege
CIS Azure
MITRE ATT&CK Technique T1078
MITRE ATT&CK Tactic Defense Evasion
Zero-Trust Tenet Tenet 6
Framework tags nist-800-207, argus-zt

Source

Rule defined at policies/azure/zt/identity/zt_id_012.rego.

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