Critical

Global Admin synced from on-premises

Identifies Global Administrators whose accounts are synchronized from on-premises Active Directory.

Category
Roles
Default severity
Critical
Rule key
CHECK_SYNCED_GLOBAL_ADMINS
Last updated

How to fix it

Use cloud-only accounts for all privileged roles. On-prem compromise should not directly compromise the cloud tenant.

Required Microsoft Graph permissions

EntraAnalyzer needs the following read-only Graph permissions to evaluate this rule:

  • Directory.Read.All
  • RoleManagement.Read.Directory
  • User.Read.All

Further reading

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