MCSB IM-4: Identity Management
5 Senserva Microsoft 365 security checks provide evidence for Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark control IM-4 (Identity Management). Each is checked against your tenant, ranked by Severity, with validated remediation.
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What MCSB IM-4 covers
The Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark is Microsoft's own security baseline for Azure and Microsoft 365, organized into control domains. IM-4 sits in the Identity Management domain. Senserva evidences it with the 5 checks below, so you can see, per tenant, whether the control is actually met rather than assumed.
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The 5 checks that evidence MCSB IM-4
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| Senserva check | Severity | What it verifies |
|---|---|---|
| Sub Foreign Group Role Assignment | High | Foreign group (outside the tenant) has a role assignment on the subscription |
| Access Guest With Roles | Medium | Guest (external) user has been assigned directory roles in the tenant. Guest accounts with roles expand the attack surface from external identities |
| Access Non Employee With Roles | Medium | Non-employee user (non-member type) has been assigned directory roles |
| User Not Enabled Guest With Roles Or License | Medium | Guest user is not enabled but has roles or licenses assigned |
| Conditional Access MFA For Guest Found | Info | A Conditional Access policy enforcing MFA for guest/external users was found |
Also evidences
The same checks provide evidence for these frameworks, so one fix counts across your obligations:
Evidence this control in your own Microsoft 365
This page maps Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark control IM-4 (Identity Management) to the checks that prove it. Siemserva by Senserva runs those checks, and 650+ others, against your own tenant: it shows exactly where this control is met or failing, ranks the gaps by Severity, and produces the audit-ready evidence and validated fixes to close them.
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