Threat Actors Increase Misuse of OAuth Applications

OAuth apps are a big part of the extensibility picture for Microsoft 365 tenants. As such, they are targeted by attackers as a good way to gain access to data. In a recent security blog, Microsoft recommends some steps to secure tenants. We’ve covered most of them in other articles, but it’s always good to pull the story together and rewrite a script to make it easier to report consent grants for apps.

Looking for Events in the Unified Audit Log

The Office 365 audit log is packed full of information about what happens inside workloads. New events show up all the time. The question is how to understand what actions these events relate to. We outline a simple procedure to discover the presence of new audit events and dive into the investigation of an event called Consent to application, which is pretty important in the context of recent high-profile attacks.

Dealing with Document Sensitivity Label Mismatches in SharePoint Online

Support for sensitivity labels is generally available for SharePoint Online. Users can apply labels to classify and protect documents, but a mismatch can happen between labels applied to documents and the sites where the documents are stored. When this happens, SharePoint Online emails site owners to tell them that a mismatch exists.

How to Report Email SentAs Other Exchange Online Mailboxes

The SendAs audit event is logged when someone uses the send as permission to send a message from an Exchange Online mailbox. The events are stored in the Office 365 audit log and can be found there with an audit log search. However, things aren’t as straightforward as they are on-premises because some other types of delegated messages turn up in searches. Fortunately, we have a script to help.