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    SaaS Security Administrator's Guide

    Onboard a Microsoft Teams App to SSPM

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    Onboard a Microsoft Teams App to SSPM

    Connect a Microsoft Teams instance to SSPM to detect posture risks.
    High-level configuration scanning across Office 365 products is available by onboarding the Office 365 app. Adding the Microsoft Teams app individually gives you greater visibility into Microsoft Teams settings.
    For SSPM to detect posture risks in your Microsoft Teams instance with more detail than the Office 365 app scan, you must onboard your Microsoft Teams instance to SSPM. Through the onboarding process, SSPM logs in to a Microsoft administrator account. SSPM uses this account to scan your Microsoft Teams instance for misconfigured settings. If there are misconfigured settings, SSPM suggests a remediation action based on best practices.
    During the onboarding process, you will supply Microsoft Teams account credentials to SSPM. SSPM can access the account directly or through the Okta or Microsoft Azure identity providers. Having SSPM access the account through one of these identity providers requires MFA, which adds an extra layer of security.
    To onboard your Microsoft Teams instance, you complete the following actions:

    Collect Information for Connecting to Your Microsoft Teams Instance

    To access your Microsoft Teams instance, SSPM requires the following information, which you will specify during the onboarding process.
    Item
    Description
    User
    The username or email address of the administrator account. The format that you use can depend on whether SSPM will be logging in directly to your account or through an identity provider.
    Required Permissions:
     The user must be assigned to the Microsoft Global Admin role.
    Password
    The password for the administrator account.
    If you are using Okta as your identity provider, you must provide SSPM with the following additional information:
    Item
    Description
    Okta subdomain
    The Okta subdomain for your organization. The subdomain was included in the login URL that Okta assigned to your organization.
    Okta 2FA secret
    A key that is used to generate one-time passcodes for MFA.
    If you are using Azure Active Directory (AD) as your identity provider, you must provide SSPM with the following additional information:
    Item
    Description
    Azure 2FA secret
    A key that is used to generate one-time passcodes for MFA.
    As you complete the following steps, make note of the values of the items described in the preceding tables. You will need to enter these values during onboarding to access your Microsoft Teams instance from SSPM.
    1. Identify the Microsoft administrator account that SSPM will use to access your Microsoft Teams instance. The administrator must be assigned to the Microsoft Global Admin role.
    2. Determine whether you want SSPM to log in to the administrator account directly, or through an identity provider.
      Using an identity provider adds an extra layer of security by requiring MFA using one-time passcodes. You can use Okta or Microsoft Azure as the identity provider for accessing the administrator account. However, if you use an identity provider, SSPM requires more information for MFA.

    Connect SSPM to Your Microsoft Teams Instance

    By adding a Microsoft Teams app in SSPM, you enable SSPM to connect to your Microsoft Teams instance.
    1. From the Add Application page (
      Posture Security
      Applications
      Add Application
       ), click the Microsoft Teams tile.
    2. Under posture security instances,
      Add Instance
       or, if there is already an instance configured,
      Add New
       instance.
    3. Specify how you want SSPM to connect to your Microsoft Teams instance. SSPM can
      Log in with Credentials
      ,
      Log in with Okta
      , or
      Log in with Azure
      .
    4. When prompted, provide SSPM with the administrator credentials. If SSPM is connecting to the account through an identity provider, specify the information that SSPM needs for MFA.
    5. Connect
      .

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