While hybrid environments are the new norm, they bring with them a unique set of security challenges, like fragmented systems, siloed authentication flows, and sub-optimal end-user experiences. As a result, the process of enforcing security controls turns into a daunting task – even for the most advanced organizations.
In this blog, we’ll explore how Silverfort’s integration with Microsoft Teams addresses the challenge of securing hybrid environments with enhanced visibility capabilities and real-time alerts on any authentication request in your environment.
Why end-to-end visibility is essential for security teams
On-prem resources and cloud applications are often siloed, which creates operational bottlenecks for security teams and makes it even more difficult to secure all authentication flows. Not managing both environments correctly can increase the risk of exposed passwords, potentially leading to misuse and credential compromise. To mitigate these risks, organizations must strike a balance between strong security controls and operational efficiency.
Enforcing effective security controls while maintaining a frictionless end-user experience is no mean feat. Luckily, there are things you can do to make it easier. Firstly, a proactive approach to visibility, with centralized monitoring of all authentications and other user activities at its core, is vital to enforcing strong access policies across your organization – and detecting any malicious threats before they can become an issue. Furthermore, organizations need real-time alerts for high-risk incidents or risk delaying the incident response process. Without these timely notifications, security teams may not become aware of any malicious activity until the damage has been done.
No more risk visibility blind spots for security teams
Silverfort Authenticator for Microsoft Teams
Silverfort customers can now use the Microsoft Teams application to securely approve authentication requests, providing an alternative to the Silverfort MFA desktop application. Use our SSO bridging functionality to receive real-time alerts for all authentication requests in your hybrid environment without installing the Silverfort desktop application on your workstations. With enhanced authentication flows through Silverfort, you’ll get efficient, streamlined access to any resource within your defined access policies.
How does Silverfort Authenticator for Microsoft Teams work?
Silverfort embeds authentication bridging flows directly into Microsoft Teams’ environment and seamlessly bridges any type of authentication request. When an Identity Bridge policy is triggered, the Silverfort Authenticator app in Teams sends an SSO request to verify the user’s identity. After the user accepts the request, the bridge session is established, and the user gains secure access to a specific resource within the organization’s environment.
Silverfort’s risk and incident notifications for Microsoft Teams
Silverfort’s risk and incident notifications integration with Microsoft Teams offers security teams real-time end-to-end visibility into security events happening in your environment based on our analysis. This integration allows you to receive real-time alerts in your Microsoft Teams app on security events with different risk levels, including new incident detection and changes to entity risk levels. With Silverfort for Microsoft Teams, you gain all the necessary insights for a rapid, informed risk prioritization and mitigation process.
How does Silverfort’s risk and incidents notifications integration with Microsoft Teams work?
To set up this integration, you will need to configure Microsoft Teams to accept incoming webhooks and adjust your Silverfort settings to send notifications based on pre-defined risk levels. With this configuration, Silverfort will push notifications to Teams whenever critical events occur in your environment. In these notifications, you will see detailed information about the incident that will help you quickly assess and respond to critical threats.
Screenshots: Examples of real-time alerts that are sent in response to various events or triggers. These notifications are tailored to the specific circumstances of each event.
A new approach to bridging authentication flows and incident visibility
Silverfort’s integrations with Microsoft Teams open new possibilities for organizations to maintain and secure their hybrid environments. With authentication flows bridge and real-time alerts embedded directly into Teams, security teams can stay one step ahead of potential security threats and enforce strong security controls while keeping a seamless end user experience.
Looking to learn how you can enforce identity controls in your hybrid environment? Schedule a call with one of our experts.