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1.3.6 (L2) Ensure the customer lockbox feature is enabled

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Information

Customer Lockbox is a security feature that provides an additional layer of control and transparency to customer data in Microsoft 365. It offers an approval process for Microsoft support personnel to access organization data and creates an audited trail to meet compliance requirements.

Enabling this feature protects organizational data against data spillage and exfiltration.

Solution

To remediate using the UI:

 - Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center https://admin.microsoft.com.
 - Click to expand Settings then select Org settings.
 - Select Security & privacy tab.
 - Click Customer lockbox.
 - Check the box Require approval for all data access requests.
 - Click Save.

To remediate using PowerShell:

 - Connect to Exchange Online using Connect-ExchangeOnline.
 - Run the following PowerShell command:

Set-OrganizationConfig -CustomerLockBoxEnabled $true

Impact:

Administrators will need to grant Microsoft access to the tenant environment prior to a Microsoft engineer accessing the environment for support or troubleshooting.

See Also

https://workbench.cisecurity.org/benchmarks/22162

Item Details

Plugin: microsoft_azure

Control ID: 4068cbf8960cffdfd10e784f379f262de7b646621452bd86b63b07a95228b941