In a new blog post, the company revealed that it’s adding multi-factor authentication as the default security setting for existing Azure customers who haven’t changed that setting on their own.

Microsoft. User MFA setup screen. You can set up a code to be sent via SMS to your cell or by a call to your office phone. You can also set up an authentication app on users’ phones.

To set up the policy, click on “Azure AD Identity Protection – Sign-in risk policy”. Set the policy to either all users or selected users. Choose sign-in risk as high and click “Done”.

The roles get set up using the Azure management portal, which has a graphical user interface. However, organizations may need to modify or customize Microsoft's built-in roles, too.

If MFA is not enabled and there is no request to delay enforcement until October, users will be required to set up MFA before when signing into administration portals (i.e., Entra and Intune admin ...

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