Microsoft Entra ID Protection: Investigating and Remediating Risky Sign-ins

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Microsoft Entra ID Protection offers valuable insights into your organization’s sign-in activities, helping identify potential risks.

Understanding Risk Detections

Entra ID Protection covers various risk detections such as anomalous IP addresses, suspicious location changes, and multiple failed sign-ins.

Investigating High-Risk Alerts

Reviewing the user and sign-in reports can help you understand these high-risk events. Investigate further to confirm compromised accounts or malicious activities.

Configuring Risk-Based Conditional Access

To protect your organization, configure risk-based Conditional Access policies to require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or even block access for high-risk users.

Step 1: Create a new policy in the Azure portal

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Step 2: Choose the users and clouds covered by the policy

Step 3: Add conditions based on risk level

Remediating Compromised Accounts

For confirmed compromised accounts, use ID Protection features to reset passwords or even perform a forced password change.

Tuning Risk Policies

To reduce false positives and improve user experience, fine-tune your risk policies based on your organization’s needs.

Step 1: Review the alert details

Step 2: Adjust the risk policy threshold (if necessary)

Step 3: Monitor and adjust as needed

Conclusion

Leverage Microsoft Entra ID Protection to strengthen your organization’s security posture by investigating risky sign-ins, configuring Conditional Access policies, and remediating compromised accounts.

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