ORCA.156: Safe Links Policies are tracking when user clicks on safe links.
| ID | ORCA.156 |
| Severity | Medium |
| Suite | ORCA |
| Product | Defender |
| Related products | Exchange Online |
| Feature | Safe Links |
| Security area | Email and collaboration protection |
| Resource type | Policy |
| User impact of fixing | Low |
| Effort to fix | Low |
| Framework controls | nist-800-53-r5:SI-3 Malicious Code Protectionnist-800-53-r5:AU-12 Audit Record Generation |
| MITRE ATT&CK | T1566.002, T1204.001 |
| Reads from | Exchange Online |
| Licence needed | ATP_ENTERPRISE |
What this checks and how to fix it
Section titled “What this checks and how to fix it”When these options are configured, click data for URLs in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio documents and in emails is stored by Safe Links. This information can help dealing with phishing, suspicious email messages and URLs.
Remediation action
Section titled “Remediation action”Enable tracking of user clicks in Safe Links Policies.
Related Links
Section titled “Related Links”- Microsoft 365 Defender Portal - Safe links
- Recommended settings for EOP and Microsoft Defender for Office 365
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