introduction
Using Office 365 may expose your sensitive data not only internally, but also to external collaborators
or even worse make it publicly available via a shared link.
Such incidents might occur due to malicious actor, or by an unaware employee.
moreover
Office 365 also provides a large third-party app eco-system to help boost productivity. and these apps also can expose your organization to the risk of malicious apps or use of apps with excessive permissions.
so ,,,what is the solution
Connecting Office 365 to Cloud App Security gives you
- improved insights into your users’ activities
- provides threat detection using machine learning based anomaly detections,
- information protection detections (such as detecting external information sharing),
- enables automated remediation controls,
- and detects threats from enabled third-party apps in your organization.
Using the Office 365 connector provides protection for the following products:
- Dynamics 365 CRM
- Exchange
- Office 365
- OneDrive
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- SharePoint
- Skype for Business
- Teams
- Yammer
which office365 Apps supported by CAS
Using the Office 365 connector provides protection for the following products:
- Dynamics 365 CRM
- Exchange
- Office 365
- OneDrive
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- SharePoint
- Skype for Business
- Teams
- Yammer
CAS & office365 Audit log
Cloud App Security integrates directly with Office 365’s audit logs and receives all audited events from all supported services, such as PowerApps, Forms, Sway, and Stream.
which Threat handled by CAS
- Compromised accounts and insider threats
- Data leakage
- Insufficient security awareness
- Malicious third-party apps
- Malware
- Phishing
- Ransomware
- Unmanaged bring your own device (BYOD
create office365 connector
as pervious article we have seen how to create office365 app connector
also we see how to edit connector settings
and mentioned we can disable connector
but to delete app connector : we said that we have to create support request from Azure port [NOT from Microsoft 365 admin center ] : simply because it responsibilities of Azure team
conclusion
this article was general concepts about office365 app connector
next article we will see how to use default policies to Control Office 365 with built-in policies and policy templates
