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SB192b Does not disable MFA on Microsoft 365

Disabling MFA on Microsoft 365 increases the risk of an unauthorised person gaining access to your account if they know your password.


Why is it important?

Multi-factor authentication increases account security from 50% to 99%. Disabling multi-factor authentication cuts security in half, significantly increasing the ease with which threat actors can breach accounts. This would give cybercriminals access to all information contained within your Microsoft 365 account.

Priority Tier

Behaviours in SebDB are ranked by their impact on risk. Tier 1 behaviours have the biggest impact, Tier 4 behaviours the least.

Tier 1

Risk Mitigated

Account Compromise

Account Compromise

Account compromise happens when unauthorised people access them.

Further reading

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3451471.3451503

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