O365 & AAD Multi-Tenant Custom Connector – Azure Sentinel

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Overview & Use Case

Thanks to   and @Yaniv Shasha for the brainstorming, contributing and proof reading! 

A multi-national organization having multiple branches with different identities across the globe, each branch have it's own separate tenant (AAD & O365) logs and the global SOC team are looking for a way on how to ingest these logs coming from all branches to their main parent tenant via Azure Sentinel.

While Azure Sentinel can’t natively do that using the out-of-the box data connectors (Office 365 / Azure AD), we cover your back with O365 & AAD Multi-Tenancy custom connector via an Azure Sentinel Playbook (Logic App) that invoke the Office 365 Management API & Graph API to read from multiple tenants and writes to a custom table in Sentinel, same can be done using Azure Function.

Implementation

With the help of Office 365 Management API & Microsoft Graph API we can invoke specific content types cross-tenants:

So, tell us more about the steps?

Assuming, we have a parent tenant (Pt) & a child tenant (Ct) and the requirements is to invoke the "Ct" tenant O365 Management API & Graph APIs to pull Office 365 & AAD logs and ingest at "Pt" ones.

Step(1): Prep & App Registration

• Ensure that "Ct" Office 365 Security & Compliance audit logs is enabled 
  • Log in to "Ct" http://protection.office.com
  • Search > Audit Log search (enabled and be able to search for activities)
• Log in to "Ct" Azure tenant, http://portal.azure.com
• Search for App Registration > New Registration
• Type Name, ensure of selecting the right "supported account type": Accounts in any organizational directory (Any Azure AD directory - Multitenant), then click Register button
• Follow the below gif / step-by step guide on how to define and configure the API permissions & create the secret:

• Click at “API permissions”
  • Add a permission > Office 365 Management API > Application permissions
  • Select and check “ActivityFeed.Read” , “ActivityFeed.ReadDlp” & “ServiceHealth.Read”
  • Add a permission > Microsoft Graph
  • Select and check “Directory.Read.All”, “AuditLog.Read.All”
  • Click at “grant admin consent” link
• Click at “Certificates & secrets”
  • Under Client secrets > Add client secret
• Get the following values:
  • Application / Client ID
  • Tenant ID
  • Secret
  • Azure Active Directory Domain
• Register the API subscription via PowerShell, run the below PowerShell as administrator and connect to the "Ct" tenant directory, ensure of replacing $ClientID, $ClientSecret, $tenantdomain and $TenantGUID with the above copied values:

Step(2): Cross-Tenants Custom Connector

• Log in to "Pt" Azure tenant, http://portal.azure.com
• Go to Azure Sentinel > Playbooks
• Create a new Playbook and follow the below gif / step-by-step guide, the code being uploaded to github repo as well:
  • Add a “Recurrence” step and set the following field, below is an example to trigger the Playbook every 5 minutes:
    • Interval: 5
    • Frequency: Minute
  • Initialize set of variables for the content-types values:
    
    • Child-Tenant ID:
      • Name: ChildTenantID
      • Type: String
      • Value: value of the child tenant ID
    • Audit.General-Var:
      • Name: AuditGeneral
      • Type: String
      • Value: https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0/@{variables('ChildTenantID')}/activity/feed/subscriptions/content?contentType=Audit.General&PublisherIdentifier=Microsoft
    • Audit.AzureActiveDirectory-Var:
      • Name: AAD
      • Type: String
      • Value: https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0/@{variables('ChildTenantID')}/activity/feed/subscriptions/content?contentType=Audit.AzureActiveDirectory&PublisherIdentifier=Microsoft
    • DLP-Var:
      • Name: DLP
      • Type: String
      • Value: https://manage.office.com/api/v1.0/@{variables('ChildTenantID')}/activity/feed/subscriptions/content?contentType=DLP.ALL&PublisherIdentifier=Microsoft
    • User SignIns-Var:
      • Name: Sign-Ins
      • Type: String
      • Value: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/auditLogs/signIns
    • User-Activities-Var:
      • Name: UserActivities
      • Type: String
      • Value: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/auditLogs/directoryAudits
  • Set an HTTP endpoints to Get content-types data, ensure the authorization type is Active Directory OAuth:
    • HTTP – Get Logs – O365API:
      • Method: GET
      • URI: @{variables('AAD')}
      • Headers:
        • Accept: application/json
        • Content-Type: application/json
      • Authentication type: Active Directory OAuth
    • HTTP – GraphAPI:
      • Method: GET
      • URI: @{variables('Sign-Ins')}
      • Headers:
        • Accept: application/json
        • Content-Type: application/json
      • Authentication type: Active Directory OAuth
  • Parse content-types data via Json:
    • Parse JSON – O365API:
      • Content: @{body('HTTP__-_Get_Logs-O365API')}
      • Schema: uploaded to github
    • Parse JSON – GraphAPI:
      • Content: @{body('HTTP_-_GraphAPI')}
      • Schema: uploaded to github
  • Next step is to send logs to Azure Sentinel via a custom log table, so will show an example of iterating all returned values from O365 Management API and send data to Log analytics and another example of sending the raw-data from Graph API to log analytics without the iteration phase:
    • Iterate (For-each) on all returned values (Body) and Get contentUri from Office 365 API and value from Graph API via an embedded - looped HTTP Endpoints, ensuring that the authorization type is Active Directory OAuth:
      • Add  For Each control:
        • Select an output from previous steps: @body('Parse_JSON_-_O365API')
      • Add HTTP endpoint step:
        • Method: GET
        • URI: @{items('For_each_-O365API')['contentUri']}
        • Headers:
          • Accept: application/json
          • Content-Type: application/json
        • Authentication: Active Driectory OAuth
      • Add Send Data to Log Analytics Control:
        • JSON Request body: @{json(body('HTTP'))}
        • Custom Log Name: ChildO365AAD
  • Send the data (Office 365 Management API and Graph API) to Azure Sentinel Log analytics workspace via a custom log tables:
    • JSON Request body: @{body('HTTP_-_GraphAPI')}
    • Custom Log Name: ChildAADSignIn

Notes & Consideration

• You can customize the parsers at the connector's flow with the required and needed attributed / fields based on your schema / payload before the ingestion process, also you can create custom Azure Functions once the data being ingested to Azure Sentinel
• Azure Function can be used to create custom connector for multi-tenant access, here’s a great example created by Jon Nord invoking Office 365 Management API which you can extend and add Graph API as well.
• Couple of points to be considered while using Logic Apps:
  • Cost (standard / enterprise connectors)
  • Considerations & Configurations
  • Non standard schema
  • Rewriting rules

Get started today!

We encourage you to try it now!

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