HealthInsight tasks and recommendations

HealthInsight provides the following security tasks to improve security for an org.

Security Task	Why is this recommended?	Security Impact	End-User Impact
Limit the number of super admin roles	To ensure that org admins aren't assigned more permissions than necessary. Most orgs require only a few super admins.	Critical	None
Enable Okta ThreatInsight to block suspicious IP addresses	To detect suspicious IP addresses from credential-based attacks.	Critical	Low
Disable weaker MFA factors in factor enrollment policies	To improve resistance to phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks.	High	High
Enable Okta Verify (with Push if available) for MFA	To provide end users with a strong and secure factor to sign in to their org.	High	High
Enforce a limited session lifetime for all policies	To reduce the risk of malicious party access to an end user's applications (when an end-user session is active).	High	Moderate
Enable Suspicious Activity Reporting	To give end users the option to report unrecognized activity from an account activity email.	High	Low
Enable new sign-on email notifications	To inform end users by email of any unrecognized activity from a new or unknown device or browser.	High	Low
Enable factor enrollment notifications	To inform end users by email of new MFA enrollment activity on their account.	High	Low
Enable factor reset notifications	To inform end users by email that MFA factors for their account have been reset.	High	Low
Password changed notification for end users	To inform end users by email that the password for their account has changed.	High	Low
Use SAML or OIDC authentication for app access	To use SAML and OIDC authentication protocols, which reduce reliance on password-based authentication.	High	None
Change the authentication frequency	To shorten the session expiration length, require end users to re-authenticate more frequently.	Moderate	Moderate
Evaluate a risk score for each request	To prompt users with medium and high risk scores for MFA every time they sign in.	Moderate	Moderate
Blocklist Network Zones to deny access to your Okta tenant	To deny access from known suspicious IP addresses or locations from your Okta tenant.	Moderate	Low
Enable strong password policy settings	To enforce strict password policies that define settings for password lockout, history, minimum age, and minimum length.	Low	Moderate
Set a required factor for MFA enrollment policies	To ensure that end users assigned to a given policy are enrolled in multifactor authentication.	Low	High
MFA requirements	Ensure that the MFA requirements aren't in conflict with Behavior Detection and that the MFA policy rule isn't bypassed unintentionally.	Moderate	None
MFA for the Admin Console	To enable mandatory mulitfactor authentication (MFA) for all admins who access the Okta Admin Console.

Advisory Statement

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