ControlPoint 8.7 - for Office 365 User Guide

Preparing Your Environment for Using ControlPoint Sentinel

Before ControlPoint Sentinel can begin collecting data for Anomalous Activity Detection:

A.SharePoint auditing must be enabled on all site collections for which Anomalous Activity detection will be performed.

B.Anomalous Activity Detection must be enabled to run:

§via the ControlPoint Anomalous Activity Detection job

OR

§as part of the ControlPoint Scheduler Job..

Enabling SharePoint Auditing

ControlPoint Sentinel analyzes the following SharePoint audit log events for Anomalous Activity Detection:

·Editing items

·Deleting or restoring items

·Opening or downloading documents, viewing items in lists, or viewing item properties.

You can enable these settings for individual site collections from within SharePoint.

Enabling the Anomalous Activity Detection Job

1From the Manage ControlPoint tree choose Schedule Management and Logging > Schedule Monitor.

2Choose Switch Monitor Views > Windows Jobs.

3Click the Edit icon () to the left of the AnomalousActivityDetectionJob.

4Check the Active box.

By default, the job is scheduled to run daily, at 4:00 am (local server time).  You may however, change the schedule to run more frequently.  Note that, the more frequently the job is run, the sooner an alert may be generated when an Anomalous Activity Limit is reached.

Enabling Anomalous Activity Detection via the ControlPoint Scheduled Job Review

As an alternative to using the Anomalous Activity Detection Job, you can choose to have anomalous activity detection performed as part of the ControlPoint Scheduler Job. (which, by default, runs every 10 minutes).  ControlPoint Application Administrators can enable this option by changing the ControlPoint Configuration Setting Enable Options That Require Anomalous Activity Detection from False to True.

Refer to the ControlPoint Administration Guide for more detail on modifying ControlPoint Configuration Settings.

Reporting Anomalous Activity

The ControlPoint Sentinel Report lets you view anomalous activity events for which an Alert has been specified on the Sentinel Setup - Anomalous Activity Rules page.  You can also filter results by user and/or date range.

To report anomalous activity:

1From the Manage ControlPoint tree choose ControlPoint Sentinel > Sentinel Report.

2If you want to narrow your results, enter one or more user(s) in the People Picker and/or enter a date range.

NOTE:  If you leave the From and To Dates blank, all available results will be returned.

The tiles at the top of the report highlight the following statistics:

·The Total Number of Anomalous Activities Detected

·The number of High Risk Events as characterized by ControlPoint Sentinel

·The Number of Users with anomalous activity

·The Security Risk Score (which is derived by the Severity of each activity within the date range covered by the report)

For each anomalous event detected, report detail displays:

·the Event Time (that is, the date and the time when the ControlPoint Anomalous Activity Detection Job captured the event)

·the User whose activity triggered the anomalous activity detection alert

·the Event Severity (as defined on the Sentinel Setup - Anomalous Activity Limits page)

·the Triggering Activity Level that resulted in the anomalous activity detection alert:

§for Default daily activity, activity above the specified limit for the Event Severity

§for Personal daily activity, the amount of activity for the Event Severity to which the specified deviations above from the user's "typical" usage pattern have been applied.

·the Expected Activity Level:

§for Default daily activity, the specified limit for the Event Severity

§for Personal daily activity, "typical" usage pattern as calculated by ControlPoint Sentinel

·the Delta Activity Level (that is, the difference between Triggering Activity Level and the Expected Activity Level).

To view detailed audit log data for a user:

Click the User link to generate a ControlPoint Audit Log analysis.

Default Menu Options for ControlPoint Online Users

The following tables identify ControlPoint default menu items at all levels of the SharePoint Hierarchy as well as the Manage ControlPoint panel.

The following terms are used to describe menu item behavior in a Multi-farm installation:

·Home Only - The operation can be performed on the home farm only.

·Home or Remote - The operation can be performed on a single farm; either home or remote

·Multiple - The operation can be performed on multiple farms.

·Farm-Independent - The operation is not farm-specific.

Tenant (Farm)-Level Default Menu Items