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Microsoft 365 Teams External Access Enabled

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Microsoft 365 Teams External Access Enabled

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Identifies when external access is enabled in Microsoft Teams. External access lets Teams and Skype for Business users communicate with other users that are outside their organization. An adversary may enable external access or add an allowed domain to exfiltrate data or maintain persistence in an environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-o365*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5m

Searches indices from: now-30m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-external-access

Tags:

Domain: Cloud
Data Source: Microsoft 365
Use Case: Configuration Audit
Tactic: Persistence

Version: 206

Rule authors:

Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Setup

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The Office 365 Logs Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:(SkypeForBusiness or MicrosoftTeams) and
event.category:web and event.action:"Set-CsTenantFederationConfiguration" and
o365.audit.Parameters.AllowFederatedUsers:True and event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/
Technique:
- Name: Account Manipulation
- ID: T1098
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1098/

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