Microsoft 365 Teams Guest Access Enablededit

Identifies when guest access is enabled in Microsoft Teams. Guest access in Teams allows people outside the organization to access teams and channels. An adversary may enable guest access to maintain persistence in an environment.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

  • filebeat-*
  • logs-o365*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 5 minutes

Searches indices from: now-30m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • Microsoft 365
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Configuration Audit

Version: 101 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.11.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.6.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positivesedit

Teams guest access may be enabled by a system or network administrator. Verify that the configuration change was expected. Exceptions can be added to this rule to filter expected behavior.

Investigation guideedit


Rule queryedit

event.dataset:o365.audit and event.provider:(SkypeForBusiness or
MicrosoftTeams) and event.category:web and event.action:"Set-
CsTeamsClientConfiguration" and
o365.audit.Parameters.AllowGuestUser:True and event.outcome:success

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

Rule version historyedit

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