Forum Discussion

Daelos's avatar
Daelos
Copper Contributor
Jan 05, 2023

Preventing Defender quarantining PUAs on BYO devices.

We've recently bumped up our M365 Business Standard to Premium and I'm working through Defender/Endpoint and all the other extra security goodies. I have to say that the double whammy of not starting from scratch and most of the Defender help is for big corporate sites on Enterprise licenses (and not a little start-up where 50% of people are using BYO devices and doesn't even have an office) has made learning how to configure security for our needs a bit overwhelming. 

How do I stop Defender of Office 365 from blocking certain PUAs on personal devices? We have a policy of locking down applications for all Azure AD joined 'owned' devices and we would like to get a compliance warning on any machine logged into the system but we've had at least one instance where Defender has quarantined a perfectly legitimately needed BitTorrent application on a personal device.

Is there a list of the applications Defender thinks are dodgy and how would I go about whitelisting certain applications that we've allowed for trusted users BYO devices? 

If I can't do that, how can I simply allow all personal devices to run PUAs? A risk I know but honestly, these should be warnings (maybe a total block on access), not just going ahead wiping applications on devices not owned by the company. 

I definitely need to work on our Conditional Access Policies too but perhaps that's a question for another meta thread on CAPs (or maybe not).

No RepliesBe the first to reply

Resources