MFA enforcement for our account

Question

Hi Microsoft,

We are using an microsoft entra id free tier account for our internal usage. Recently we received an notification regards of MFA enforcement for the entra id center, etc.,. We want to know the impact of the functionality incase we are not enforced the MFA enforcement.

Answer 1

Hello,

After October 15th, MFA will be enforced for all your users meaning they will need to sign up for MFA. Even though you’re on the Entra Free tier, MFA enforcement will not incur additional costs, as basic MFA and Security Defaults are included in the free tier.

To plan, See:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/authentication/concept-mandatory-multifactor-authentication?source=recommendations

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Regards,

Abiola

Answer 2

Hi @Mukeshkannan

Thank you for posting this in Microsoft Q&A.

Enforcing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is an important security measure that can help protect your organization's resources from unauthorized access.

If you do not have MFA setup for your users and have not applied for a grace period by 15 October 2024, your users will be at the risk of not being able to access Azure portal. If that happens, you will need to set up MFA using the MFA wizard for Microsoft Entra. If you are unable to set up MFA for users who want to access Azure portal, Entra admin center or Intune admin center before this date, you have an option to apply for a grace period which will postpone the enforcement date for your tenant to 15 March 2025. We recommend that you set up MFA for all Entra user identities accessing Azure through these clients by March 15, 2025.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you any further queries.

Thanks,

Navya.

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