CIS.M365.9.1.12 - (L1) Restrict service principal access to Fabric global APIs
Overview
Service-principal access to create Fabric workspaces, connections, and deployment pipelines is disabled or limited to one or more security groups.
These APIs are not governed by Fabric's item permission model. Scope the setting to a group containing only applications that require access; this check confirms a group is configured but does not inspect its membership.
Remediation action
- Sign in to the Microsoft Fabric admin portal with a Fabric administrator account.
- Select Tenant settings.
- Scroll to Developer settings.
- Set Service principals can create workspaces, connections, and deployment pipelines to Disabled, or choose Enabled with Specific security groups selected and defined for the applications that need this access. If the organization doesn't actively use this feature, keep it Disabled.
- Select Apply.
Related links
Test Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Test ID | CIS.M365.9.1.12 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Suite | CIS |
| Product | Microsoft Fabric |
| Feature | Developer settings |
| Area | Applications and workload identities |
| Resource type | Tenant |
| User impact | Low |
| Implementation cost | Low |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1078.004 Cloud Accounts |
| Supports benchmark | CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark (version 7.0.0), requirement 9.1.12 |
| Benchmark level | L1 |
| Benchmark profiles | E3 Level 1 |
| Supports controls | cis-m365:9.1.12, nist-800-53-r5:AC-3 |
| PowerShell test | Test-MtCisFabricGlobalApiAccessRestricted |
| Services | Azure |
Source
- Test:
tests/cis/Test.CIS.M365.9.1.12.ps1 - Documentation:
tests/cis/Test.CIS.M365.9.1.12.md