How to Get Users Without MFA Report in Microsoft 365

Are your users underestimating the importance of MFA and procrastinating on MFA registration? Without MFA, their Microsoft 365 account is an easy target. Hackers are constantly developing new ways to steal passwords and identity information. Every moment of delay exposes your organization's security.

Let's explore some more potential consequences:

If your organization has yet to implement MFA, it's essential to understand the common security vulnerabilities when configuring only simple and low-level authentication methods:

These security risks should concern you, especially if your Office 365 users are without MFA enable in your organization. To stand against these serious security risks, it's strongly recommended to change the default MFA for Microsoft 365 users and configure strong MFA authentication methods like Microsoft authenticator app, biometric verification, and more in your organization.

• From the MFA analysis section, you can gain complete insights into your organization’s authentication methods and statistics of successful, failed and sign-in interrupts counts.
• Note: You can download any of the report in your desired format by clicking the download icon.

By default, per-user MFA uses basic authentication methods such as SMS (text) and call verification for initial authentication. However, these methods are more vulnerable to attacks like SIM swapping, potentially compromising your Microsoft 365 security.

Adaptive MFA is the strongest way to protect your Microsoft 365 accounts. It dynamically adjusts authentication requirements based on factors like user, role, location, etc. and uses pre-defined conditional access policies to enhance security. With adaptive MFA, you can configure multiple strong authentication methods and enforce policies based on user licenses.

Admins may need to disable MFA for users in certain scenarios, especially to create break glass accounts. These accounts are backup accounts with high admin privileges that can be used to access the organization's data in critical situations, such as when all users are blocked by MFA failing or during a cyberattack.

However, disabling MFA for users in Microsoft 365 is not recommended that can lead to identity compromises. Therefore, it is crucial to closely manage MFA usage activities in your organization.

Verifying MFA status is your initial line of defense against potential threats and improves every Microsoft 365 user's security. Get a list of users without MFA status and level up your Office 365 security with prompt actions.

To check the organization’s MFA usage, identify MFA disabled users in Microsoft 365 using the following methods:

Still, there are limitations in the above native methods. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, you can't filter out only users with MFA disabled. On the other hand, PowerShell doesn't provide results in a user-friendly report format.

• With AdminDroid’s "Users without MFA" report, it’s as easy as a few mouse clicks to generate automated report schedules for regular monitoring of Office 365 users with MFA disabled.
• You can enable and educate users about the significance of MFA and take prompt actions to enhance your Microsoft 365 organization’s security.

By clicking the mail icon on top of the report, you can also directly email any of the report to your specified users for improved monitoring and authentication management.

Monitoring MFA usage in Office 365 is equally important as enforcing MFA to ensure the complete visibility of MFA and the organization's security. It includes tracking user MFA activities, such as sign-in attempts without MFA, users' MFA registration, and reset activities on MFA.

To get users sign-ins without using MFA in Microsoft Entra admin center follow the below steps:

Check the user’s sign-in with disabled MFA and take necessary actions to enable MFA and ensure the Microsoft 365 organization’s security.

• It monitors user sign-ins with failed MFA and notifies you when an unusual number of user sign-ins without MFA occurs, exceeding your predefined threshold limit in your organization.
• Alert policies can be created simply by clicking the 🔔 bell icon present at the top right corner of the report page.

Managing multi-factor authentication in Office 365 is crucial for enhanced security and protection. By managing MFA, organizations mitigate password-related risks, comply with security standards, safeguard against phishing attacks and improve overall account security.

To disable per-user MFA, follow the above navigation steps and click the ‘Disable’ option under quick steps in the Microsoft Entra admin center. By performing the bulk actions in MFA, you can manage Azure AD users without MFA and effortlessly take control of your organization MFA operations in a few clicks.

Admins are a crucial data source since they may have access to sensitive Microsoft 365 data related to their administrative roles. Therefore, if an admin account is compromised, attackers can gain access to the entire organization's data, including confidential financial or customer information.

Perform the below steps to enable MFA for admins using conditional access policy,

This policy requires MFA for administrators with conditional access and ensures all the admin accounts are safe and reliable.

As you can see from the topics above, the risks and attacks become a major concern due to not having an MFA in Microsoft 365. MFA is an effective way to protect your organization from the above risks and to ensure the security of your data and applications.

Let's see some of the key benefits of the enabling MFA for clear understanding of importance of MFA:

Regular updates on Microsoft 365 users MFA trends helps you to proactively manage MFA settings in your organization.