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S for Security in EMS – Advanced Threat Analytics

02/03/2020 / Julian Rasmussen

So in this fourth blog post in my series S for Security in EMS we will og deeper in Advanced Threat Analytics included within EMS.

So what is Advanced Threat Analytics?

Well, it`s an on-premises platform that helps protect your enterprise from multiple types of advanced targeted cyber attacks and insider threats.

Why is this a important toolset to have on your hybrid environment?

Well, since you have an hybrid environment you are lacking a system to detect abnormal behavour like password sharing, lateral movements and so on and Malicious attacks like Pass-the-Ticket, Pass-the-Hash and several other attack vectors.

Advanced threat analytics uses machine learning and user usage analytics discover abnorman activities and suspicious activities.

Within Advanced Threat Analytics we can also get insights on Security Issues and risk within our on-premises environment like broke trust between machines and domain controlelrs, weak protocols used by our users and systems and much more!

All these actions and insights can be viewed from the Advanced Threat Analytics Dashboard

This is just a smal insight on what ATA can do for you!

S for Security in EMS – Overview
Part 1 – S for Security in EMS – Azure AD Premium
Part 2 – S for Security in EMS – Information Protection
Part 3 – S for Security in EMS – Microsoft Intune
Part 4 – S for Security in EMS – Advanced Threat Analytics
Part 5 – S for Security in EMS – Cloud App Security

S for Security in EMS – AAD Premium

10/02/2020 / Julian Rasmussen

Let`s start off with the EMS E3 package and that will give you access and user rights to use Azure AD Premium P1 features.

So do you need it?

Well, Azure AD Premium P1 gives you capabilities for your hybrid users to access both on-prem and cloud resources. The synchronization also provides write-back capabilities so self-service password reset for on-prem users can be achieved. Along with advanced features as Dynamic groups, self-service group management and “Microsoft Identity Manager” (on-prem identity and access management).

And one more important feature which is one of the most powerfull regarding securing your cloud services is “Conditional Access”. Yes we have “Security Defaults” witch is a free service but if you need to do some exclutions you need to upgrade to Azure AD Premium P1 to gain “Conditional Access” features.

Over to EMS E5 – that gives you several additions to the P1 license with all the Azure AD P2 features.

Those features are at the time “Azure Identity Protection” and “Priviledged Identity Management”

When going to P2 i will say that PIM is the feature you want to configure right the way as this gives you access management in a whole new level. Users who have been givven additional roles within your AzureAD does not have the role active at all time lowering the attack vector for users. When users need to use their priviledge roles they have to activate it and by adding a second factor to the activation your priviledge roles are more secure! Hey, you can also add approvers to roles so that a second person need to approve the request.

Many options on this part as you see!

As this blogg post is in a series of several posts please stay tuned for the next service within EMS and this blog post series “S for security in EMS”

Security Defaults – a lifesaver for some and a little pain for others

13/01/2020 / Julian Rasmussen

So lets talk about “Security Defaults” a bit, this new feature in AzureAD who replaces “Baseline policies: ” in the Conditional Access pane within Security in AzureAD.

First of all – the baseline policies where in preview and could be changed before the feature went GA so we cant blame anyone of the service changing before production.

The Baseline policies gave us remediaton of MFA and and blocking of legacy authentication within 4 policies that everyone could use within Conditional Access, these four policies where free so no cost and that sweet!

Baseline Policy: Require MFA for admins (Preview)
- Enabled MFA to all administrator roles within AzureAD
Baseline Policy: End user protection (Preview)
- Enabled MFA registration to all users and required MFA for users with leaked password or other risky signins.
Baseline Policy: Require MFA for Service Management (Preview)
- Require MFA for accessing the Azure Portal, Azure PowerShell modules or Azure CLI
Baseline Policy: Block legacy authentication (Preview)
- Blocked the usage of legacy authentication on all services (such as pop, IMAP, native android clients etc.

For a good time now we cound enabled one or more of those 4 baseline rules – but that ends! At February 29th 2020 Microsoft will discontinue the use of Baseline policies so if you are using some of them you need to enable Security Defaults in AzureAD.

Head into portal.azure.com -> Properties -> Security Defaults and enable it.

Please not that if you have license for using Conditional Access (Azure AD Premium P1) you cannot a Conditional Accessrule without disabling Security Defaults.

And if you have Azure AD Premium P1 you should be creating the Conditional Access rules manually and that gived you several advantages such as exclude users, pinpoint to some cloud apps or exclude them and set other requiremets aswel.

Best practice says that you should always have a “Break the glass administrator” account who is excluded from all the Requirements – but please note! That account need to be monitored and high security alerts should be raised every time the account is used.

Azure AD Connect sync issues

18/12/2019 / Julian Rasmussen

Now and then we get errors in our Azure AD Connect syncronization, or that said – my customers get errors.

And every now and then there is a error wich are not easy to spot what can be wrong.

In this case the sollution was not that easy – but when you think of it, it makes kind of sense sort of.

So this is the Error i got.

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The object failed synchronization. For more information, please see the error details. If the problem continues and
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Looking into Azure AD Connect it throwed a error on syncronization.

After some investigation back and forth i with the GUID who did not match the Azure AD Sync error – i found out that a deleted group was configured as a licensing group within Azure AD. Therefor when it was deleted from On-prem AD it could not be deleted in Azure AD since it still was in use.

By removing it from the license sku it removed it self on next sync.

How do I know all my users are enabled for and using MFA?

28/11/2019 / Julian Rasmussen

More and more organizations is taking advantage of using MFA for their users and there is no reason for them not to since it`s free for all Office 365 users and also for all Azure AD users if you are not using the Office 365 services. But after you enable it for your users, are you sure everyone is enabled?

You may have seen at the Secure Score that not all users are registred for MFA, and if you do so you have users with no MFA! So these users may be victims for bruteforce attacks so it`s super important to remediate all users to see how everything is configured! Some of the users with no MFA maybe legit and should not have it.

So let`s dig into the materials for a second or two.

First thing is that there is a “Secure Score” check for MFA registered users that will show you how many of your users which are not registered (if any)

If you have any users in that list it would not show who the users are so we need to go deeper in the material to retreive this status.

So to get the list of users who don`t have setup MFA you need to run this PowerShell command with the AzureAD PowerShell module loaded.

Connect-MsolService

Get-MSOLUser -all | where {$_.StrongAuthenticationMethods.methodtype -eq $null} | Select Displayname,UserPrincipalName,BlockCredential,LastPasswordChangeTimestamp,UserType |Out-GridView

And now that we have found all users we can check them out why they don`t use MFA and make sure that they use it 🙂

Further on we can check what method users are using when authenticating with MFA. For this I use this script located in Technet PowerShell archives HERE

If you have deployed MFA the Conditional Access way (recommended) you will see that the MFA status on all user are set to “Disabled” but the method is set to what the user are using.

Have checking status on your users! 🙂

Get started with MFA – part two

02/10/2019 / Julian Rasmussen

So in the previously post I went through how to activate MFA for Administrator roles i a really simple and effective way.

In this post we will focus on activating MFA for all regular users. And first off all we need to evaluate who should be activated first or should we activate on all users at the same time and do a evaluation on service accounts! If we enable MFA on for example a serivce account used for scan to email on “multi functional printers” or on a mailbox account witch are used on a thirdparty ticketingsystem (POP/IMAP) we could break those service by just enabling MFA on all users.

My recomandation is when you are more then 30 users in your company you should select a few ambasadeurs who is getting the MFA activated first and can therefore be the power users who can help others with the registration if there is any hick-ups (should not be many).

And to activate MFA for end users I highly recomend to use Conditional Access for

all users and exclude a AzureAD Group which contains a “Break the glass Admin” and other service accounts.
All cloud apps (no exeptions)
Grant Access – but require MFA

Easy like that! And It`s a realy quick solution for your company.

Drawback here is that you need “Azure AD Premium P1” licenses to use Conditional Access and a second drawback is that it`s not scored at the Microsoft Secure Score.

Get started with MFA – part one

23/09/2019 / Julian Rasmussen

You problably heard about multifactor authentication by now, but have you enabled it in your environment?

If not! Please do so at once! I will in this short blogpost give you the direction to get started with MFA in Azure AD.

So let`s just jump right into it.

First things first – protect your admin accounts!

With admin accounts i mean a account who has a additional role assigned other then beeing a regular user and to mitigate these users we will enable a Conditional Access who is requires MFA for all administrator accounts

So navigate to Azure Active Directory in portal.azure.com

Dive into “Security” -> “Conditional Access”

Click the “Baseline policy: Require MFA for Admins (Preview) and choose to use it immidiatly

So now you have successfully enabled MFA for all your admins! Great work 😊

To make it easier for yourself you can now change the MFA verification from the default SMS to Authenticator app by visiting https://aka.ms/mfasetup and add the Authenticator app as a preffered method.

Next up is to enable it for all your users and that i will cover in the next blog post – Stay tuned for “Get started with MFA – Part two” 🙂

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