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- Perform Actions on Sanctioned Apps
- API Throttling
- Configure Classification Labels
- Microsoft Labeling for Office 365
- Google Drive Labeling
- Configure Phishing Analysis
- Configure WildFire Analysis
- Fine-Tune Policy
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- What is an Incident?
- Filter Incidents
- Configure Slack Notification Alerts on Data Security
- Security Controls Incident Details
- Track Down Threats with WildFire Report
- Customize the Incident Categories
- Close Incidents
- Download Assets for Incidents
- View Asset Snippets for Incidents
- Modify Incident Status
- Email Asset Owners
- Generate Reports on Data Security
- Integrate CIE with Data Security
- Search in Data Security
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- View Usage Data for Unsanctioned SaaS Apps
- SaaS Visibility Application Attributes
- How SaaS Security Inline Determines an App's Risk Score
- Identify Risky Unsanctioned SaaS Apps and Users
- Generate the SaaS Security Report
- Filter Unsanctioned SaaS Apps
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- SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- App-ID Cloud Engine
- Guidelines for SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Apply Predefined SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Create SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Enable SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Monitor SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Delete SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Modify Active SaaS Policy Rule Recommendations
- Manage Enforcement of Rule Recommendations on Strata Cloud Manager
- Manage Enforcement of Rule Recommendations on Panorama
- Tag Discovered SaaS Apps
- Apply Tag Recommendations to Sanctioned Apps
- Change Risk Score for Discovered SaaS Apps
- Troubleshoot Issues on SaaS Security Inline
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- Onboarding Overview for Supported SaaS Apps
- Onboard an Aha.io App to SSPM
- Onboard an Alteryx Designer Cloud App to SSPM
- Onboard an Aptible App to SSPM
- Onboard an ArcGIS App to SSPM
- Onboard an Articulate Global App to SSPM
- Onboard an Atlassian App to SSPM
- Onboard a BambooHR App to SSPM
- Onboard a Basecamp App to SSPM
- Onboard a Bitbucket App to SSPM
- Onboard a Bito AI App to SSPM
- Onboard a BlueJeans App to SSPM
- Onboard a Box App to SSPM
- Onboard a Bright Security App to SSPM
- Onboard a Celonis App to SSPM
- Onboard a Cisco Meraki App to SSPM
- Onboard a Claude App to SSPM
- Onboard a ClickUp App to SSPM
- Onboard a Codeium App to SSPM
- Onboard a Cody App to SSPM
- Onboard a Confluence App to SSPM
- Onboard a Contentful App to SSPM
- Onboard a Convo App to SSPM
- Onboard a Couchbase App to SSPM
- Onboard a Coveo App to SSPM
- Onboard a Crowdin Enterprise App to SSPM
- Onboard a Customer.io App to SSPM
- Onboard a Databricks App to SSPM
- Onboard a Datadog App to SSPM
- Onboard a DocHub App to SSPM
- Onboard a DocuSign App to SSPM
- Onboard a Dropbox Business App to SSPM
- Onboard an Envoy App to SSPM
- Onboard an Expiration Reminder App to SSPM
- Onboard a Gainsight PX App to SSPM
- Onboard a GitHub Enterprise App to SSPM
- Onboard a GitLab App to SSPM
- Onboard a Google Analytics App to SSPM
- Onboard a Google Workspace App to SSPM
- Onboard a GoTo Meeting App to SSPM
- Onboard a Grammarly App to SSPM
- Onboard a Harness App to SSPM
- Onboard a Hellonext App to SSPM
- Onboard a Hugging Face App to SSPM
- Onboard an IDrive App to SSPM
- Onboard an Intercom App to SSPM
- Onboard a Jira App to SSPM
- Onboard a Kanbanize App to SSPM
- Onboard a Kanban Tool App to SSPM
- Onboard a Krisp App to SSPM
- Onboard a Kustomer App to SSPM
- Onboard a Lokalise App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft 365 Copilot App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft Azure AD App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft Exchange App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft OneDrive App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft Outlook App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft Power BI App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft SharePoint App to SSPM
- Onboard a Microsoft Teams App to SSPM
- Onboard a Miro App to SSPM
- Onboard a monday.com App to SSPM
- Onboard a MongoDB Atlas App to SSPM
- Onboard a MuleSoft App to SSPM
- Onboard a Mural App to SSPM
- Onboard a Notta App to SSPM
- Onboard an Office 365 App to SSPM
- Onboard Office 365 Productivity Apps to SSPM
- Onboard an Okta App to SSPM
- Onboard an OpenAI App to SSPM
- Onboard a PagerDuty App to SSPM
- Onboard a Perplexity App to SSPM
- Onboard a Qodo App to SSPM
- Onboard a RingCentral App to SSPM
- Onboard a Salesforce App to SSPM
- Onboard an SAP Ariba App to SSPM
- Onboard a ServiceNow App to SSPM
- Onboard a Slack Enterprise App to SSPM
- Onboard a Snowflake App to SSPM
- Onboard a SparkPost App to SSPM
- Onboard a Tableau Cloud App to SSPM
- Onboard a Tabnine App to SSPM
- Onboard a Webex App to SSPM
- Onboard a Weights & Biases App to SSPM
- Onboard a Workday App to SSPM
- Onboard a Wrike App to SSPM
- Onboard a YouTrack App to SSPM
- Onboard a Zendesk App to SSPM
- Onboard a Zoom App to SSPM
- Onboarding an App Using Azure AD Credentials
- Onboarding an App Using Okta Credentials
- Register an Azure AD Client Application
- View the Health Status of Application Scans
- Delete SaaS Apps Managed by SSPM
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Begin Scanning Office 365 Apps
Learn how to connect the Office 365 apps to Data Security to begin scanning
for security violations.
Where Can I Use This? | What Do I Need? |
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Or any of the following licenses that include the Data Security license:
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If you have a previous version of the Office 365 app, you
must reauthenticate to update the
permissions so that Office 365 app does not stop scanning for assets.
- Supported Content
- Onboard Office 365 Apps to Data Security
- Selective Scanning
- Start Scanning and Monitor Results
- Troubleshoot Onboarding Issues
Supported Content
Support For
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Details
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Supported Content
| Files and folders |
Backward Scan
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Yes
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Forward Scan
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Yes
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Selective Scan
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OneDrive-Yes, SharePoint-N/A
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Exposure
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All
Data Security will scan
files uploaded by external collaborators only if those
external collaborators are added to the Azure Active
Directory as External. |
Remediation Actions
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OneDrive
SharePoint
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Post-Remediation Actions (Actions after admin
quarantine)
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User Activities
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Snippet Support
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Yes
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Known License/Version restrictions
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Home and Frontline versions are not supported
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Caveats/Notes
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None
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Onboard Office 365 App to Data Security
For Data Security to scan assets, you must consent to specific
permissions during onboarding the Office 365 app. Without the requested
permissions, Data Security can’t authenticate (OAuth2) with Office 365
and can’t scan assets, even after you successfully install the Office 365 app.
If you forget to consent to permissions, you can correct the misconfiguration,
but it’s more efficient to avoid the issue.
- Prerequisites
- Enable Activity MonitoringTurn on auditing in Office 365 to record user and admin activity. This feature is enabled by default, but it’s important to verify that your organization didn’t turn off auditing. Data Security needs audit logs to search and report on activity and to perform forward scans. If you don’t turn on auditing, you’ll observe missing functionality related to user and admin activity.
- Log in to your Office 365 Admin account.
- Verity that auditing is enabled. If it isn't, turn on auditing.
- Prepare to Onboard Office 365
- Add your Office 365 app domain as an internal domain.
- Optional If you plan to use selective scanning using Azure Active Directory, you must retrieve your Azure AD group information before adding your Office 365 application so Data Security can discover and scan assets belonging to the user groups you want to monitor. Or, Integrate Cloud Identity Engine with Data Security if you plan to use selective scanning before adding your application so that Data Security can discover and scan assets belonging to the user groups you want to monitor.
- Ensure that you have an Office 365 account with Global Administrator role permissions and valid OneDrive license assigned to that administrator account.The Global Administrator role is required only for the onboarding process. After successful onboarding, you can downgrade the account from the Global Administrator role to a normal user role in the Microsoft Office 365 Admin Center. Additionally, you can also delete the account used to onboard Office 365. However, if you delete the account, you cannot perform the Admin Quarantine function.
- Ensure that you have a OneDrive subscription. A storage plan is separate from an Office 365 subscription.
- Establish communication between Data Security and Office 365
- Go to http://portal.microsoftonline.com and log out of Office 365 to ensure that you aren't logged in as a user other than an account with Global admin role permissions.By default, when you instruct Data Security to move an asset to Admin Quarantine folder, that asset folder resides on the admin account that you use to onboard the Office 365 app. However, after you onboard Office 365 app, Data Security enables you to specify an alternative account.
- Log in to Office 365 using an account that has the Global admin role permissions:
- Add your Office 365 app
- Log in to Strata Cloud Manager and select Data SecurityApplicationsAdd ApplicationOffice 365. Click on the tile.
- Enter the login credentials for the account with Global admin role privileges on the Microsoft online page to which Data Security redirects you.
- Review and Accept the permissions requested.Data Security requires these permissions to scan your assets on Office 365.If your onboarding is successful, the following message appears:
- View Onboarding Status
- Click View Onboarding Status to check if both App Authentication and Validating Permissions checks are successful. Sample data assets and user activities are also listed.
- Optional Data Security adds the new Office 365 app to the Cloud Apps list as Office 365 n, where n is the number of Office 365 app instances that you connected to Data Security. The first Office 365 instance you add to Data Security will have the default name of Office 365 1. To rename your Office 365 app instance, click on the pen icon next to the name.
Optional Selective Scanning on Office 365 App
You can perform this procedure any number of
times and make any changes as long as you have not started scanning your Office
365 app. However, if you have started scanning, all operations related to
selective scanning are disabled.
- Enable group-based selective scanning.If you have not already done so, instruct Data Security to retrieve your Azure AD group information. Or, Integrate Cloud Identity Engine with Data Security if you plan to use selective scanning before adding your application so that Data Security can discover and scan assets belonging to the user groups you want to monitor. Then return to this step to choose the user groups.
- You can choose to either Scan or Exclude From Scan your user groups.
- Choose your groups from the Available Groups list and move them to the Selected Groups list.
- Save your settings.
- Next step: Proceed to Start Scanning and Monitor Results.
Start Scanning and Monitor Results
- To start scanning the new Office 365 app for risks, select Data SecurityApplicationsOffice 365View Settings...Start Scanning.Data Security will scan files uploaded by external collaborators only if those external collaborators are added to the Identity Provider as External.
- Monitor the scan results.During the discovery phase, as Data Security scans files and matches them against enabled policy rules:
- Verify that Data Security displays assets.
- Verify that your default policies are effective. If the results don’t capture all risks or you see false positives, proceed to next step to improve your results.
- (Optional) Modify match criteria for existing policies.
- (Optional) Add new policies.Consider the business use of your cloud app, then identify risks unique to your enterprise. As necessary, add new:
- (Optional) Configure or edit a data pattern.You can configure data patterns to identify specific strings of text, characters, words, or patterns to make it possible to find all instances of text that match a data pattern you specify.
Troubleshooting Onboarding
Fix Onboarding Issues
To ensure that your app has onboarded correctly without any issues in
authentication or permissions, Data Security performs validation checks
between the onboarding and scanning process. You can start scanning only after a
successful validation. For Office 365, the following two validations happen:
- App Authentication
- Validating Permissions
After the validation is successful, Data Security displays sample assets
and sample activities.
If you don't have any subscriptions, you will not see any User activities in
the validation page. It might take up to 12 hours for the first content
blobs to become available. For more information, see Office 365 Management Activity API
reference.
If the App Authentication or Validating
Permissions check fails, try the following:
- Ensure you have administrator permissions.
- Check if Palo Alto Networks application is listed in the list of Enterprise
Applications. Following are the app names for specific regions:
- Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks AP1
- Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks EU1
- Palo Alto Networks NG-CASB - India - Office365
- Prisma SaaS by Palo Alto Networks NAM
- Palo Alto Networks NG-CASB - UK - Office365
- Palo Alto Networks NG-CASB - Aus - Office365
- If Palo Alto Networks application is not listed, check if the Audit Logs
Activity displays as Consent to application, Target
as <app from the list given above>, and Status as
Success.
See the following table to understand the errors you are facing during
validation.
Error Codes
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Description
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Errors in App Authentication
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invalid_request
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Request is invalid.
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invalid_grant
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Internal error encountered.
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unauthorized_client
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The installed app in the Marketplace was uninstalled manually
from your cloud app.
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invalid_client
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Issue related to Marketplace instance.
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temporarily_unavailable
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Office 365 app issue on the server side. Please
reinstall.
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Errors in fetching sample assets and activities
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accessDenied
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Access is denied for ${user}.
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activityLimitReached
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App's API limit reached. Try after sometime.
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invalidRange
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You don't have any thing to get for this entity.
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invalidRequest
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Request is invalid.
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itemNotFound
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No data associated with this entity.
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notAllowed
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Authentication failure while retrieving the entity.
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notSupported
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Getting entity with required information no longer
supported.
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serviceNotAvailable
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Office 365 server is not responding.
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quotaLimitReached
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Quota for app request has been exhausted for now.
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unauthenticated
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Office 365 app issue from server side.
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The other most common issues are as follows:
Symptom
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Explanation
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Solution
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After you add the Office 365 app, no scanned assets
display for Office 365.
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Data Security doesn’t have permissions to access
Office 365, resulting in a misconfiguration.
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Log in to the Azure portal and grant the necessary
permissions for Data Security to successfully
scan your assets on Office 365.
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Office 365 app stopped scanning for assets.
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On March 2020 Data Security changed Office 365
app for SharePoint to use Microsoft’s new Graph API to
improve performance and supportability (OneDrive already
uses Graph API).
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Reauthenticate
your Office 365 app for Data Security to
continue scanning your assets. You’ll be asked to
consent to the required SharePoint permissions. You do
not need to repeat the onboarding process.
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You receive an account mismatch error when you
reauthenticate.
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Although your account is valid, it is for a different
Microsoft tenant. It is not uncommon for organizations
to have more than one tenant. For security reasons, log
on using an account associated with the tenant you used
to onboard the cloud app and for which you intended to
grant Data Security access.
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Sometimes this issue occurs unknowingly when your browser
caches your account information; in this case, log in
again using an Incognito window. Otherwise, log in using
the account associated with that other tenant.
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You observe that the policy violation log is missing,
violations aren’t being created for user activity rules,
and activities on IncidentsUser Activity Incidents do not display.
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Data Security needs audit logs to search and
report on user activity. You forgot to enable this
feature.
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Enable Auditing.
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Fix Access Issues
Grant Data Security access to Office 365 using Azure Portal. Without
permissions, Data Security can’t authenticate (OAuth2) with Office 365
and can’t scan assets, even after you successfully install the Office 365
app.
- Log in to Azure Portal at as Global Administrator.
- Select Enterprise applications All applications.
- Select Aperture by Palo Alto NetworksSecurityPermissions.
- Click Grant admin consent for
yourOrganization.
Fix Quarantine Issues
If Data Security is unable to quarantine the asset, quarantine status displays a summary
explanation of the quarantine failure. If you need additional information, and
due to the underlying differences between cloud apps, use the table below for a
detailed explanation and resolution.
By default, Office 365 cloud app quarantines malicious assets,
causing the quarantined file to become unavailable to third-party quarantine
capabilities, including those on Data Security. To provide the high
user experience to which you’ve become accustomed, the SaaS Security web
interface informs you when your cloud app quarantines an asset.
Data Security understands that your organization needs to
remediate files across cloud apps from a single user interface. Data Security is working diligently with cloud app vendors to enable
third-party remediation of malicious assets.
If you have super admin permissions on your cloud app,
you will always have direct access to the assets quarantined by your cloud app,
even when Data Security doesn’t.

Symptom
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Explanation
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Resolution
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License and Subscription
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After you add the Office 365 app, Data Security
doesn’t quarantine your OneDrive assets and quarantine
status indicates Unable to create
quarantine location.
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You must have a OneDrive subscription. Only then can Data Security create the necessary
Quarantine folder on
OneDrive and quarantine assets.
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Verify that you have a OneDrive subscription.
If you purchase a new OneDrive subscription, you must reauthenticate on Data Security.
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Data Security stopped quarantining your OneDrive
assets and quarantine
status indicates Unable to create
quarantine location.
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Data Security requires the administrator account and
OneDrive license
that you used to onboard the Office 365 app, for moving
assets to the quarantine folder.
After you add the Office 365 app, if later that same
administrator account is deleted or the OneDrive license is
revoked, Data Security can no longer quarantine
assets.
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Verify that the administrator account you used to add the
Office 365 app still exists and has a valid OneDrive
license.
If the administrator account no longer exists, you must reauthenticate on Data Security using a
different administrator account with Global Administrator
role permissions and a valid OneDrive license.
If the administrator account exists but doesn’t have a valid
OneDrive license, you must add that OneDrive license to the
administrator account, then reauthenticate, or use another administrator
account with Global Administrator role permissions that has
a valid OneDrive license, then reauthenticate.
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Files Unavailable for Quarantine
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Your file doesn’t display in the Data
Assets page and your cloud app notified you
that it quarantined the file.
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Data Security doesn’t know that the file exists.
Your cloud app immediately discovered the malware and
quarantined it—before Data Security could copy the
file’s metadata and the asset’s contents.
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As super admin, remediate the file
within your cloud app.
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quarantine status indicates Unable to download asset. |
Microsoft Threat Protection blocked the file for
download.
Data Security copied the file metadata but can’t
download a copy of the asset itself for WildFire analysis
because your cloud app quarantined the asset, making it
unavailable.
Data Security immediately copied the asset
metadata—before the cloud app could discover and quarantine
it.
Data Security attempted to download a copy of the
file to send to WildFire, but the cloud app already
discovered and quarantined the asset.
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As super admin, remediate the file
within your cloud app.
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Your file’s malware
status is File
Unavailable.
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You’re unable to quarantine a file that displays in the
Data Assets page. The
Actions:Quarantine
option is unavailable.
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You’re unable to perform Download and
Restore quarantine actions on a
file initially quarantined by Data Security.
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Data Security can’t download a new copy of the asset
and perform quarantine actions because your cloud app
quarantined the asset, making it unavailable.
Data Security immediately copied the asset metadata,
downloaded a copy of the asset itself, and quarantined
it—before the cloud app could detect malware and quarantine
it.
With WildFire analysis enabled, Data Security sent
your file to WildFire, a malware verdict was returned, and
so Data Security quarantined the asset based on
your policy.
After the copy of the file expired on SaaS Security web interface or Data Security received notification from your cloud
app that your cloud app eventually discovered the malware
and quarantined the asset, Data Security overwrote
the malware status.
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As super admin, if you need to download or
restore the file, do so on your cloud app.
However, if you want to delete the file, do so on Data Security—not your cloud app, to enable Data Security to close the open incident and the
quarantined file, keeping the state up to date.
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You’re unable to View Snippet or
access any other historical information on a file initially
quarantined by Data Security.
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Your file’s malware status is File
Unavailable, but previously had a malware
status of Pending Analysis or
Analyzed.
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You’re unable to view the WildFire report for a file whereas
you were able to previously, although the WildFire data
pattern matches display in the Data
Assets page.
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If issues persist, contact SaaS Security Technical Support.