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🛡️ Microsoft Entra ID Named Locations are not defined🟢⚪

Description​

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Description​

Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access allows an organization to configure Named locations and whether those locations are trusted or untrusted. These settings provide organizations the means to specify geographic locations for use in conditional access policies, or define actual IP addresses and IP ranges and whether those IP addresses or ranges are trusted by the organization.

Rationale​

Defining trusted source IP addresses or ranges helps organizations create and enforce Conditional Access policies around those trusted or untrusted IP addresses and ranges. Users authenticating from trusted IP addresses and/or ranges may have less access restrictions or access requirements when compared to users that try to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID from untrusted locations or untrusted source IP addresses/ranges.

Note on Assessment Status: Because the determination of entities to be included or excluded is specific and unique to each organization, the assessment status for this recommendation is considered 'Manual' even though some elements for automation (CLI, PowerShell) are provided.

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Remediation​

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Remediation​

From Azure Portal​

  1. In the Azure Portal, navigate to Microsoft Entra ID.
  2. Under Manage, click Security.
  3. Under Protect, click Conditional Access.
  4. Under Manage, click Named locations.
  5. Within the Named locations blade, click on IP ranges location.
  6. Enter a name for this location setting in the Name text box.
  7. Click on the + sign.
  8. Add an IP Address Range in CIDR notation inside the text box that appears.
  9. Click on the Add button.
  10. Repeat steps 7 through 9 for each IP range that needs to be added.
  11. If the information entered is for trusted ranges, select the Mark as trusted location check box.
  12. Once finished, click on Create.

From PowerShell​

Create a new trusted IP-based Named location policy:

[System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Microsoft.Open.MSGraph.Model.IpRange]]$ipRanges = @()
$ipRanges.Add("{{first IP range in CIDR notation}}")
$ipRanges.Add("{{second IP range in CIDR notation}}")
$ipRanges.Add("{{third IP range in CIDR notation}}")
New-MgIdentityConditionalAccessNamedLocation -dataType "#microsoft.graph.ipNamedLocation" -DisplayName "{{name of IP Named location policy}}" -IsTrusted $true -IpRanges $ipRanges

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policy.yaml​

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Linked Framework Sections​

SectionSub SectionsInternal RulesPoliciesFlagsCompliance
💼 CIS Azure v5.0.0 → 💼 5.2.1 Ensure that 'trusted locations' are defined (Manual)1no data
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 General Access Controls18no data