What is identity
Secure Score?
Is your Azure AD tenant secure? If you don't know how to answer this question, we’ll guide you through how the identity secure score can help you to view and tweak the identity security outlook.
Identity secure score is a percentage or an indicator which shows how aligned are you with Microsoft’s recommendations. Each recommendation contributes to improvement in it.
Where to find your Identity Secure Score
It is part of all Azure AD editions and admins can navigate below to find it
Azure portal > Azure Active Directory > Security > Identity Secure Score
Identity Secure Score Working
Azure keeps looking for all configuration in your tenant and updates score after every 48 hours. If your settings are not based on full recommendations, you get the partial score for that configuration.
You can follow the improvement actions in all the recommendations to increase the overall security score.
What benefits I get by reviewing and taking actions on this score?
The score helps you to:
· Objectively measure your identity security posture
· Plan identity security improvements
· Review the success of your improvements
Five important points to improve the score.
The following steps will quickly help you in implementing the most important recommendions:
1. Strengthen your credentials
2. Reduce your attack surface area
3. Automate threat response
4. Utilize cloud intelligence
5. Enable end-user self-service
Who can use the identity secure score?
To access identity secure score, you must be assigned one of the following roles in Azure Active Directory.
