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To configure the account lockout settings so that accounts are locked out for five minutes after 10 failed sign-in attempts, you can follow these steps:

Open the Microsoft Entra admin center:

Sign in with an account that has the Security Administrator or Global Administrator role.

Navigate to the lockout settings:

Go to Security > Authentication methods > Password protection.

Adjust the Smart Lockout settings:

Set the Lockout threshold to 10 failed sign-in attempts.

Set the Lockout duration (in minutes) to 5.

Please note that by default, smart lockout locks an account from sign-in after 10 failed attempts in Azure Public and Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet tenants1. The lockout period is one minute at first, and longer in subsequent attempts.However, you can customize these settings tomeet your organization’s requirements if you have Microsoft Entra ID P1 or higher licenses for your users1.

To add the LinkedIn application as a resource to the Sales and Marketing access package without removing any other resources, you can follow these steps:

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center:

Ensure you have the role of Global Administrator or Identity Governance Administrator.

Navigate to Entitlement Management:

Go to Identity governance > Entitlement management > Access packages1.

Select the Sales and Marketing access package:

Find and select the Sales and Marketing access package to modify it.

Add a new resource:

Within the access package details, select Resources.

Click on + Add resource.

Search for and select the LinkedIn application from the list of available resources.

Configure the resource role:

Assign the appropriate role for the LinkedIn application that users in the Sales and Marketing access package will have.

Review and update the access package:

Ensure that the LinkedIn application has been added as a resource.

Confirm that no other resources have been removed from the access package.

Save the changes:

After reviewing, save the changes to the access package.

Communicate the update:

Notify the relevant users about the addition of the LinkedIn application to their access package.

By following these steps, you will successfully add the LinkedIn application to the Sales and Marketing access package without affecting the other resources.

To ensure that users in the Sg-Operations group see a tab named “Operations” containing only LinkedIn and Box applications in the My Apps portal, you can create a collection with these specific applications. Here’s how to do it:

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center:

Make sure you have one of the following roles: Global Administrator, Cloud Application Administrator, Application Administrator, or owner of the service principal.

Navigate to App launchers:

Go to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications.

Under Manage, select App launchers.

Create a new collection:

Click on New collection.

Enter “Operations” as the Name for the collection.

Provide a Description if necessary.

Add applications to the collection:

Select the Applications tab within the new collection.

Click on + Add application.

Search for and select LinkedIn and Box applications.

Click Add to include them in the collection.

Assign the collection to the Sg-Operations group:

Select the Users and groups tab.

Click on + Add users and groups.

Search for and select the Sg-Operations group.

Click Select to assign the collection to the group.

Review and create the collection:

Select Review + Create to check the configuration.

If everything is correct, click Create to finalize the collection.

By following these steps, when users in the Sg-Operations group visit the My Apps portal, they will see a new tab named “Operations” that contains only the LinkedIn and Box applications1.

Please note that to create collections on the My Apps portal, you need a Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license1.

To deploy Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for only the members of the Sg-Finance group, excluding Debra Berger, and without using a Conditional Access policy, you can follow these steps:

Open the Microsoft Entra admin center:

Sign in as a Security Administrator or Global Administrator.

Navigate to MFA settings:

Go to Users > Active users.

On the Active users page, select Multi-factor authentication.

Manage user settings:

Find and select the Sg-Finance group.

Enable MFA for this group by setting the requirement status to Enabled.

Exclude a user from MFA:

In the Multi-factor authentication page, search for Debra Berger.

Set her MFA status to Disabled to exclude her from MFA registration.

Verify the configuration:

Ensure that all members of the Sg-Finance group have MFA enabled except for Debra Berger.

Communicate the change:

Inform the Sg-Finance group members about the MFA requirement and provide instructions on how to register for MFA.

Monitor the setup:

Check the sign-in logs to confirm that MFA is being prompted for the Sg-Finance group members and not for Debra Berger.

To ensure that all users can consent to apps that require permission to read their user profile and prevent them from consenting to apps that require any other permissions, you can configure the user consent settings in the Microsoft Entra admin center. Here’s how you can do it:

Sign in as a Global Administrator:

Access the Microsoft Entra admin center with Global Administrator privileges.

Navigate to user consent settings:

Go toIdentity>Applications>Enterprise applications>Consent and permissions>User consent settings1.

Configure the consent settings:

Under User consent for applications, select the option that allows users to consent to apps that only require permission to read their user profile.

Ensure that all other permissions are set to require administrator consent, thus preventing users from consenting to apps that require additional permissions1.

Save the settings:

After configuring the consent settings, select Save to apply the changes.

By following these steps, you will have configured the system to allow user consent for apps that need to read the user profile while blocking consent for apps that require additional permissions. This setup helps maintain user autonomy where appropriate while safeguarding against unauthorized access to broader permissions.

According to Microsoft’s identity and access documentation for Conditional Access and phishing-resistant MFA, phishing-resistant MFA methods are those that cannot be socially engineered or replayed. These are Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2 security keys, and certificate-based authentication (CBA) when configured for multi-factor (e.g., smart card with PIN + certificate).

The SC-300 materials highlight that these are the only methods that fully meet NIST AAL3 phishing resistance requirements. Voice calls, SMS, email OTP, and Microsoft Authenticator are not phishing-resistant because they can be intercepted or phished.

Therefore, when building a Conditional Access policy to secure administrative access, you must allow only phishing-resistant methods to meet Microsoft’s best practice.

In Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, app connectors integrate third-party services (such as Google Workspace, AWS, and GitHub) with Microsoft 365 Defender to enable activity monitoring, OAuth app analysis, and governance actions.

According to the Defender for Cloud Apps Integration Guide and the SC-300 Study Guide (Identity Governance and Compliance), connecting Google Workspace through the app connector allows the system to collect OAuth authentication data, login attempts, and permissions granted by third-party apps that use OAuth 2.0 within that ecosystem.

The documentation states:

“Defender for Cloud Apps integrates with connected apps such as Google Workspace, AWS, and others to detect suspicious OAuth applications and monitor app permission grants.”

Since the goal is to monitor OAuth authentication requests and Google Workspace is one of the connected sources, this solution meets the goal.

According to the Microsoft SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Study Guide and Microsoft Learn module “Plan and implement Conditional Access policies”, enabling or customizing Conditional Access policies requires that Security Defaults in Azure AD be disabled.

Security defaults provide a basic level of protection, such as enforcing MFA for all users and blocking legacy authentication. However, when Security Defaults are enabled, custom Conditional Access policies cannot be created because both features manage sign-in risk and access control.

From the Microsoft documentation:

“To use Conditional Access policies, you must disable security defaults. Conditional Access policies provide more granularity and flexibility than security defaults.”

Therefore, before you can control access to Microsoft 365 resources through Conditional Access, the first step is to disable Security Defaults in the Azure AD tenant.