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Newlife
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Apr 22, 2020
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Questions on Controlling and monitoring Microsoft Teams workloads.

Hi Community,    One of our customer raised the below queries:   Monitoring and enforcement policies (OCAS and MCAS) and differences between the 2 solutions This https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
  • John_Lewis's avatar
    Apr 24, 2020

    Hi Newlife, thank you for the questions. Please see my responses below:

     

    Alert for adding GA or adding users to a security role


    Yes, these activity types are supported “Add member to group/role”. In addition, with integrations with Azure ATP, we can detect suspicious additions to sensitive groups. Custom sensitive groups can be defined by admins.

     

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-advanced-threat-protection/atp-domain-dominance-alerts#suspicious-additions-to-sensitive-groups-external-id-2024

     

    Another approach is to customize your filter to include the “Acitvity objects” “Activity object ID” equals the AAD group objectID from Azure AD. This can easily be added to any filter within the Activity Log by navigating to the activity and clicking the “Activity Objects”. Within those objects, there are icons to include the objects in the filter.

     

    Alert for Adding external guests to Teams sites

     

    We have MS Teams specific templates that will detect this activity. See below:

     

    Access level change (Teams): Alerts when a team's access level is changed from private to public.
    External user added (Teams): Alerts when an external user is added to a team.
    Mass deletion (Teams): Alerts when a user deletes a large number of teams.

     

    Alert for adding user for specific group (Like domain admin)

    Same as #1

     

    Are live monitoring control only application based “web access” or include desktop client such as “desktop Teams, desktop outlook app”?

     

    Conditional Access App Control can monitor and control the session in real time for web-based applications. We have access control policies which can be used to block the desktop and mobile clients.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/proxy-intro-aad#access-controls

     

    When will the enforcement occur following a monitoring alert? How much time? (without reverse proxy)

     

    When using Conditional Access App Control, session controls are in real time. If you elect to monitor the session, no controls will be used. This provides an avenue to analyze user behavior to understand under what conditions session policies should be applied in the future. Without CaaC enabled, you can leverage API connected application that perform governance functionality in near real time.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/enable-instant-visibility-protection-and-governance-actions-for-your-apps

     

    They want to create alerts when someone upload or download files in Teams

    We have activity filters that support upload/download file.

     

    Specific alert if there is sensitive information in the file.
    File policies support DLP functionality.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/data-protection-policies

     

    MCAS to block and protect download of sensitive data to unmanaged or risky devices: Can they do it with OCAS?
    Only for Office Apps but the license requirements also include Azure AD P1.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-app-security/proxy-intro-aad

     

    Can it apply only on web app or include desktop app?
    Only web-based applications. You would need to use access policies to limit desktop and mobile applications to provide a comprehensive approach to securing those apps.

     

    Are all the built-in policies that we can see in the OCAS portal  can be applied?

    Yes

     

    Blocking / alert for sharing files based on if the user is external or internal user.
    That control should be handled with the native tools built into OD4B/Sharepoint https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/external-sharing-overview

     

    Block and alert if the connection to O365 portal and O365 services was from other country then Israel.
    This can be done with Azure AD Conditional Access Policies.

    Alerts can be configured in CAS to filter on activity type such as logon and location.

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