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Workplace by Meta is an online collaboration software tool developed by Meta that facilitates online group work, instant messaging, video conferencing, and news sharing in one place. Along with the benefits of effective collaboration in the cloud, your organization's most critical assets may be exposed to threats. Exposed assets include messages, posts, and files with potentially sensitive information, collaboration, partnership details, and more. Preventing exposure of this data requires continuous monitoring to prevent any malicious actors or security-unaware insiders from exfiltrating sensitive information.
Connecting Workplace by Meta to Defender for Cloud Apps gives you improved insights into your users' activities and provides threat detection for anomalous behavior.
Main threats
- Compromised accounts and insider threats
- Insufficient security awareness
- Unmanaged bring your own device (BYOD)
How Defender for Cloud Apps helps to protect your environment
- Detect cloud threats, compromised accounts, and malicious insiders
- Use the audit trail of activities for forensic investigations
Control Workplace by Meta with policies
| Type | Name |
|---|---|
| Built-in anomaly detection policy | Activity from anonymous IP addresses Activity from infrequent country/region Activity from suspicious IP addresses Impossible travel Activity performed by terminated user (requires Microsoft Entra ID as IdP) Multiple failed login attempts Unusual administrative activities Unusual impersonated activities |
| Activity policy | Built a customized policy by the Workplace by Meta activities |
For more information about creating policies, see Create a policy.
Automate governance controls
In addition to monitoring for potential threats, you can apply and automate the following Workplace governance actions to remediate detected threats:
| Type | Action |
|---|---|
| User governance | Notify user on alert (via Microsoft Entra ID) Require user to sign in again (via Microsoft Entra ID) Suspend user (via Microsoft Entra ID) |
For more information about remediating threats from apps, see Governing connected apps.
Protect Workplace by Meta in real time
Review our best practices for securing and collaborating with external users and blocking and protecting the download of sensitive data to unmanaged or risky devices.
SaaS security posture management (Preview)
Connect Workplace to automatically get security posture recommendations for Workplace in Microsoft Secure Score. In Secure Score, select Recommended actions and filter by Product = Workplace. Workplace supports security recommendations to Adopt SSO (Single sign on) in Workplace by Meta.
For more information, see:
Connect Workplace to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Note
Due to the planned deprecation by Meta of Workplace from Meta, we no longer support new connections to the Workplace from Meta API connector. If you have an existing Workplace from Meta connection, it will continue to work as expected.
Next steps
If you run into any problems, we're here to help. To get assistance or support for your product issue, please open a support ticket.