Azure Risk based conditional access explained and how to set it up!

With the Azure AD Premium P2 license you are entitled for Azure AD Identity Protection. You will get the option in Conditional Access to assign risk level based options to your policies. Azure AD Identity Protection can detect six different types of suspicious sign-in activities with 3 different levels of risks.

Six suspicious sign-in activities and 3 risk levels

With the riks levels combined with conditional access policies we can protect sensitive application and data access. With this article I am going to show you how to create risk-based conditional access policies

So let’s create a Policy and get Conditional Access applied with risk levels

Step 1: Log in to the Azure Portal: https://portal.azure.com

Step 2: Go to Conditional Access

Step 3: Create a New Policy

Step 4: In the New Policy Window make sure that you give your policy a name, and include your desired users and groups and click done on the bottom of the blade.

Step 5: On the Cloud apps or actions blade select the application where you want the policy apply to.

Step 6: This is where it all happens, go to the Conditions blade – Sign-in Risk (If you don’t see the option, make sure you have a valid Azure AD Premium P2 license)

Under Configure select Yes to enable sign-in risk levels. For this Jira Production application I want to deny access to users that have leaked credentials, so we will only select High.

Step 7: On the Grant blade we will apply the controls that will be enforced. As mentioned in step 6, I want to deny access, so we will select Block access. Click on Select when done.

Step 8: The last step is Enabling the Policy by selecting On and clicking Create

Bonus tip: Now that the policy is applied, you can test your Policy by using the What If function. I would always recommend to test your applied policy by using this function.

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