Identify and remediate risks by using identity protection APIs

Article
03/27/2024

Microsoft Entra ID Protection provides organizations insight into identity-based risk and different ways to investigate and automatically remediate risk. The Identity Protection APIs used in this tutorial can help you identify risk and configure a workflow to confirm compromise or enable remediation.

In this tutorial, you learn how to use identity protection APIs to:

Generate a risky sign-in.
Allow users with risky sign-ins to remediate the risk status with a conditional access policy that requires multi-factor authentication (MFA).
Block a user from signing in using a conditional access policy.
Dismiss a user risk.

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you need the following resources and privileges:

A working Microsoft Entra tenant with a Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license.
Sign in to an API client such as Graph Explorer with an account that has at least the Conditional Access Administrator role.
Grant yourself the following delegated permissions: IdentityRiskEvent.Read.All, IdentityRiskyUser.ReadWrite.All, Policy.Read.All, Policy.ReadWrite.ConditionalAccess, and User.ReadWrite.All.
A test user account that you use to sign in later to an anonymous session to trigger a risk detection. You can use a private browsing session or the Tor browser. In this tutorial, the test user mail nickname is MyTestUser1.

Step 1: Trigger a risk detection

In the anonymous browser session, sign in as MyTestUser1 to entra.microsoft.com.

Step 2: List risk detections

When MyTestUser1 signed in to the Microsoft Entra admin center using the anonymous browser, an anonymizedIPAddress risk event was detected. You can use the $filter query parameter to get only the risk detections that are associated with the MyTestUser1 user account. It might take a few minutes for the event to be returned.

Request

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityProtection/riskDetections?$filter=userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.IdentityProtection.RiskDetections.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Filter = "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'";
});



mgc identity-protection risk-detections list --filter "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'"



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphidentityprotection "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/identityprotection"
	  //other-imports
)


requestFilter := "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'"

requestParameters := &graphidentityprotection.IdentityProtectionRiskDetectionsRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Filter: &requestFilter,
}
configuration := &graphidentityprotection.IdentityProtectionRiskDetectionsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
riskDetections, err := graphClient.IdentityProtection().RiskDetections().Get(context.Background(), configuration)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

RiskDetectionCollectionResponse result = graphClient.identityProtection().riskDetections().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.filter = "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'";
});


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let riskDetections = await client.api('/identityProtection/riskDetections')
	.filter('userDisplayName eq \'MyTestUser1\'')
	.get();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\IdentityProtection\RiskDetections\RiskDetectionsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestConfiguration = new RiskDetectionsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = RiskDetectionsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->filter = "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'";
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


$result = $graphServiceClient->identityProtection()->riskDetections()->get($requestConfiguration)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

Get-MgRiskDetection -Filter "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'"


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.identity_protection.risk_detections.risk_detections_request_builder import RiskDetectionsRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = RiskDetectionsRequestBuilder.RiskDetectionsRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		filter = "userDisplayName eq 'MyTestUser1'",
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.identity_protection.risk_detections.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Response

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#riskDetections",
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "d52a631815aaa527bf642b196715da5cf0f35b6879204ea5b5c99b21bd4c16f4",
      "requestId": "06f7fd18-b8f1-407d-86a3-f6cbe3a4be00",
      "correlationId": "2a38abff-5701-4073-a81e-fd3aac09cba3",
      "riskType": "anonymizedIPAddress",
      "riskEventType": "anonymizedIPAddress",
      "riskState": "atRisk",
      "riskLevel": "medium",
      "riskDetail": "none",
      "source": "IdentityProtection",
      "detectionTimingType": "realtime",
      "activity": "signin",
      "tokenIssuerType": "AzureAD",
      "ipAddress": "178.17.170.23",
      "activityDateTime": "2020-11-03T20:51:34.6245276Z",
      "detectedDateTime": "2020-11-03T20:51:34.6245276Z",
      "lastUpdatedDateTime": "2020-11-03T20:53:12.1984203Z",
      "userId": "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
      "userDisplayName": "MyTestUser1",
      "userPrincipalName": "[email protected]",
      "additionalInfo": "[{\"Key\":\"userAgent\",\"Value\":\"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0\"}]",
      "location": {
        "city": "Chisinau",
        "state": "Chisinau",
        "countryOrRegion": "MD",
        "geoCoordinates": {
          "latitude": 47.0269,
          "longitude": 28.8416
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

Step 3: Create a conditional access policy

You can use conditional access policies in your organization to allow users to self-remediate when risk is detected. Self-remediation enables your users to unblock themselves to access their resources securely after completing the policy prompt. In this step, you create a conditional access policy that requires the user to sign in using MFA if a medium or high risk detection occurs.

Set up multifactor authentication

When setting up an account for MFA, you can choose from several methods for authenticating the user. Choose the best method for your situation to complete this tutorial.

Sign in to the keep your account secure site using the MyTestUser1 account.
Complete the MFA setup procedure using the appropriate method for your situation, such as using the Microsoft Authenticator app.

Create the conditional access policy

The conditional access policy allows you to set the conditions of the policy to identify sign-in risk levels. Risk levels can be low, medium, high, none. The following example shows how to require MFA for sign ins with medium and high risk levels.

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/policies 
Content-type: application/json
 
{ 
  "displayName": "Policy for risky sign-in", 
  "state": "enabled", 
  "conditions": { 
    "signInRiskLevels": [ 
      "high", 
      "medium" 
    ], 
    "applications": { 
      "includeApplications": ["All"]
    }, 
    "users": { 
      "includeUsers": [ 
        "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc" 
      ] 
    } 
  }, 
  "grantControls": { 
    "operator": "OR", 
    "builtInControls": [ 
      "mfa" 
    ] 
  } 
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ConditionalAccessPolicy
{
	DisplayName = "Policy for risky sign-in",
	State = ConditionalAccessPolicyState.Enabled,
	Conditions = new ConditionalAccessConditionSet
	{
		SignInRiskLevels = new List<RiskLevel?>
		{
			RiskLevel.High,
			RiskLevel.Medium,
		},
		Applications = new ConditionalAccessApplications
		{
			IncludeApplications = new List<string>
			{
				"All",
			},
		},
		Users = new ConditionalAccessUsers
		{
			IncludeUsers = new List<string>
			{
				"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
			},
		},
	},
	GrantControls = new ConditionalAccessGrantControls
	{
		Operator = "OR",
		BuiltInControls = new List<ConditionalAccessGrantControl?>
		{
			ConditionalAccessGrantControl.Mfa,
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Identity.ConditionalAccess.Policies.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc identity conditional-access policies create --body '{\
  "displayName": "Policy for risky sign-in", \
  "state": "enabled", \
  "conditions": { \
    "signInRiskLevels": [ \
      "high", \
      "medium" \
    ], \
    "applications": { \
      "includeApplications": ["All"]\
    }, \
    "users": { \
      "includeUsers": [ \
        "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc" \
      ] \
    } \
  }, \
  "grantControls": { \
    "operator": "OR", \
    "builtInControls": [ \
      "mfa" \
    ] \
  } \
} \
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessPolicy()
displayName := "Policy for risky sign-in"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
state := graphmodels.ENABLED_CONDITIONALACCESSPOLICYSTATE 
requestBody.SetState(&state) 
conditions := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessConditionSet()
signInRiskLevels := []graphmodels.RiskLevelable {
	riskLevel := graphmodels.HIGH_RISKLEVEL 
	conditions.SetRiskLevel(&riskLevel) 
	riskLevel := graphmodels.MEDIUM_RISKLEVEL 
	conditions.SetRiskLevel(&riskLevel)
}
conditions.SetSignInRiskLevels(signInRiskLevels)
applications := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessApplications()
includeApplications := []string {
	"All",
}
applications.SetIncludeApplications(includeApplications)
conditions.SetApplications(applications)
users := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessUsers()
includeUsers := []string {
	"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
}
users.SetIncludeUsers(includeUsers)
conditions.SetUsers(users)
requestBody.SetConditions(conditions)
grantControls := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessGrantControls()
operator := "OR"
grantControls.SetOperator(&operator) 
builtInControls := []graphmodels.ConditionalAccessGrantControlable {
	conditionalAccessGrantControl := graphmodels.MFA_CONDITIONALACCESSGRANTCONTROL 
	grantControls.SetConditionalAccessGrantControl(&conditionalAccessGrantControl)
}
grantControls.SetBuiltInControls(builtInControls)
requestBody.SetGrantControls(grantControls)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
policies, err := graphClient.Identity().ConditionalAccess().Policies().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ConditionalAccessPolicy conditionalAccessPolicy = new ConditionalAccessPolicy();
conditionalAccessPolicy.setDisplayName("Policy for risky sign-in");
conditionalAccessPolicy.setState(ConditionalAccessPolicyState.Enabled);
ConditionalAccessConditionSet conditions = new ConditionalAccessConditionSet();
LinkedList<RiskLevel> signInRiskLevels = new LinkedList<RiskLevel>();
signInRiskLevels.add(RiskLevel.High);
signInRiskLevels.add(RiskLevel.Medium);
conditions.setSignInRiskLevels(signInRiskLevels);
ConditionalAccessApplications applications = new ConditionalAccessApplications();
LinkedList<String> includeApplications = new LinkedList<String>();
includeApplications.add("All");
applications.setIncludeApplications(includeApplications);
conditions.setApplications(applications);
ConditionalAccessUsers users = new ConditionalAccessUsers();
LinkedList<String> includeUsers = new LinkedList<String>();
includeUsers.add("4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc");
users.setIncludeUsers(includeUsers);
conditions.setUsers(users);
conditionalAccessPolicy.setConditions(conditions);
ConditionalAccessGrantControls grantControls = new ConditionalAccessGrantControls();
grantControls.setOperator("OR");
LinkedList<ConditionalAccessGrantControl> builtInControls = new LinkedList<ConditionalAccessGrantControl>();
builtInControls.add(ConditionalAccessGrantControl.Mfa);
grantControls.setBuiltInControls(builtInControls);
conditionalAccessPolicy.setGrantControls(grantControls);
ConditionalAccessPolicy result = graphClient.identity().conditionalAccess().policies().post(conditionalAccessPolicy);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conditionalAccessPolicy = {
  displayName: 'Policy for risky sign-in', 
  state: 'enabled', 
  conditions: { 
    signInRiskLevels: [ 
      'high', 
      'medium' 
    ], 
    applications: { 
      includeApplications: ['All']
    }, 
    users: { 
      includeUsers: [ 
        '4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc' 
      ] 
    } 
  }, 
  grantControls: { 
    operator: 'OR', 
    builtInControls: [ 
      'mfa' 
    ] 
  } 
};

await client.api('/identity/conditionalAccess/policies')
	.post(conditionalAccessPolicy);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessPolicy;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessPolicyState;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessConditionSet;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\RiskLevel;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessApplications;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessUsers;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessGrantControls;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessGrantControl;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ConditionalAccessPolicy();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Policy for risky sign-in');
$requestBody->setState(new ConditionalAccessPolicyState('enabled'));
$conditions = new ConditionalAccessConditionSet();
$conditions->setSignInRiskLevels([new RiskLevel('high'),new RiskLevel('medium'),	]);
$conditionsApplications = new ConditionalAccessApplications();
$conditionsApplications->setIncludeApplications(['All', 	]);
$conditions->setApplications($conditionsApplications);
$conditionsUsers = new ConditionalAccessUsers();
$conditionsUsers->setIncludeUsers(['4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc', 	]);
$conditions->setUsers($conditionsUsers);
$requestBody->setConditions($conditions);
$grantControls = new ConditionalAccessGrantControls();
$grantControls->setOperator('OR');
$grantControls->setBuiltInControls([new ConditionalAccessGrantControl('mfa'),	]);
$requestBody->setGrantControls($grantControls);

$result = $graphServiceClient->identity()->conditionalAccess()->policies()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	displayName = "Policy for risky sign-in"
	state = "enabled"
	conditions = @{
		signInRiskLevels = @(
		"high"
	"medium"
)
applications = @{
	includeApplications = @(
	"All"
)
}
users = @{
includeUsers = @(
"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"
)
}
}
grantControls = @{
operator = "OR"
builtInControls = @(
"mfa"
)
}
}

New-MgIdentityConditionalAccessPolicy -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_policy import ConditionalAccessPolicy
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_policy_state import ConditionalAccessPolicyState
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_condition_set import ConditionalAccessConditionSet
from msgraph.generated.models.risk_level import RiskLevel
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_applications import ConditionalAccessApplications
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_users import ConditionalAccessUsers
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_grant_controls import ConditionalAccessGrantControls
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_grant_control import ConditionalAccessGrantControl
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ConditionalAccessPolicy(
	display_name = "Policy for risky sign-in",
	state = ConditionalAccessPolicyState.Enabled,
	conditions = ConditionalAccessConditionSet(
		sign_in_risk_levels = [
			RiskLevel.High,
			RiskLevel.Medium,
		],
		applications = ConditionalAccessApplications(
			include_applications = [
				"All",
			],
		),
		users = ConditionalAccessUsers(
			include_users = [
				"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
			],
		),
	),
	grant_controls = ConditionalAccessGrantControls(
		operator = "OR",
		built_in_controls = [
			ConditionalAccessGrantControl.Mfa,
		],
	),
)

result = await graph_client.identity.conditional_access.policies.post(request_body)

Response

{ 
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identity/conditionalAccess/policies/$entity", 
  "id": "9ad78153-b1f8-4714-adc1-1445727678a8", 
  "displayName": "Policy for risky sign-in", 
  "createdDateTime": "2020-11-03T20:56:38.6210843Z", 
  "modifiedDateTime": null, 
  "state": "enabled", 
  "sessionControls": null, 
  "conditions": { 
    "signInRiskLevels": [ 
      "high", 
      "medium" 
    ], 
    "clientAppTypes": [  
      "all"  
    ], 
    "platforms": null, 
    "locations": null, 
    "applications": { 
      "includeApplications": [ 
        "All" 
      ], 
      "excludeApplications": [], 
      "includeUserActions": [] 
    }, 
    "users": { 
      "includeUsers": [ 
        "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc" 
      ], 
      "excludeUsers": [], 
      "includeGroups": [], 
      "excludeGroups": [], 
      "includeRoles": [], 
      "excludeRoles": [] 
    } 
  }, 
  "grantControls": { 
    "operator": "OR", 
    "builtInControls": [ 
      "mfa" 
    ], 
    "customAuthenticationFactors": [], 
    "termsOfUse": [] 
  } 
}

By signing in to the anonymous browser, a risk was detected, but you remediated it by completing MFA.

Step 5: List risk detections

Rerun the request in Step 2 to get the latest risk detection for the MyTestUser1 user account. Because MFA was completed in Step 4, the riskState for this latest sign in event is now remediated.

[Optional] Block the user from signing in

Instead of providing the opportunity for the user to self-remediate, you can block the user who is associated with a risky sign in from signing in. In this step, you create a new conditional access policy that blocks the user from signing in if a medium or high risk detection occurs. The difference in between this policy and the preview policy in Step 3 is that the builtInControls is now set to block.

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/policies
Content-type: application/json

{
  "displayName": "Policy for risky sign-in block access",
  "state": "enabled",
  "conditions": {
    "signInRiskLevels": [
      "high",
      "medium"
    ],
    "applications": {
      "includeApplications": ["All"]
    },
    "users": {
      "includeUsers": [
        "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"
      ]
    }
  },
  "grantControls": {
    "operator": "OR",
    "builtInControls": [
      "block"
    ]
  }
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Models;

var requestBody = new ConditionalAccessPolicy
{
	DisplayName = "Policy for risky sign-in block access",
	State = ConditionalAccessPolicyState.Enabled,
	Conditions = new ConditionalAccessConditionSet
	{
		SignInRiskLevels = new List<RiskLevel?>
		{
			RiskLevel.High,
			RiskLevel.Medium,
		},
		Applications = new ConditionalAccessApplications
		{
			IncludeApplications = new List<string>
			{
				"All",
			},
		},
		Users = new ConditionalAccessUsers
		{
			IncludeUsers = new List<string>
			{
				"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
			},
		},
	},
	GrantControls = new ConditionalAccessGrantControls
	{
		Operator = "OR",
		BuiltInControls = new List<ConditionalAccessGrantControl?>
		{
			ConditionalAccessGrantControl.Block,
		},
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Identity.ConditionalAccess.Policies.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc identity conditional-access policies create --body '{\
  "displayName": "Policy for risky sign-in block access",\
  "state": "enabled",\
  "conditions": {\
    "signInRiskLevels": [\
      "high",\
      "medium"\
    ],\
    "applications": {\
      "includeApplications": ["All"]\
    },\
    "users": {\
      "includeUsers": [\
        "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"\
      ]\
    }\
  },\
  "grantControls": {\
    "operator": "OR",\
    "builtInControls": [\
      "block"\
    ]\
  }\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphmodels "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/models"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessPolicy()
displayName := "Policy for risky sign-in block access"
requestBody.SetDisplayName(&displayName) 
state := graphmodels.ENABLED_CONDITIONALACCESSPOLICYSTATE 
requestBody.SetState(&state) 
conditions := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessConditionSet()
signInRiskLevels := []graphmodels.RiskLevelable {
	riskLevel := graphmodels.HIGH_RISKLEVEL 
	conditions.SetRiskLevel(&riskLevel) 
	riskLevel := graphmodels.MEDIUM_RISKLEVEL 
	conditions.SetRiskLevel(&riskLevel)
}
conditions.SetSignInRiskLevels(signInRiskLevels)
applications := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessApplications()
includeApplications := []string {
	"All",
}
applications.SetIncludeApplications(includeApplications)
conditions.SetApplications(applications)
users := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessUsers()
includeUsers := []string {
	"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
}
users.SetIncludeUsers(includeUsers)
conditions.SetUsers(users)
requestBody.SetConditions(conditions)
grantControls := graphmodels.NewConditionalAccessGrantControls()
operator := "OR"
grantControls.SetOperator(&operator) 
builtInControls := []graphmodels.ConditionalAccessGrantControlable {
	conditionalAccessGrantControl := graphmodels.BLOCK_CONDITIONALACCESSGRANTCONTROL 
	grantControls.SetConditionalAccessGrantControl(&conditionalAccessGrantControl)
}
grantControls.SetBuiltInControls(builtInControls)
requestBody.SetGrantControls(grantControls)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
policies, err := graphClient.Identity().ConditionalAccess().Policies().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ConditionalAccessPolicy conditionalAccessPolicy = new ConditionalAccessPolicy();
conditionalAccessPolicy.setDisplayName("Policy for risky sign-in block access");
conditionalAccessPolicy.setState(ConditionalAccessPolicyState.Enabled);
ConditionalAccessConditionSet conditions = new ConditionalAccessConditionSet();
LinkedList<RiskLevel> signInRiskLevels = new LinkedList<RiskLevel>();
signInRiskLevels.add(RiskLevel.High);
signInRiskLevels.add(RiskLevel.Medium);
conditions.setSignInRiskLevels(signInRiskLevels);
ConditionalAccessApplications applications = new ConditionalAccessApplications();
LinkedList<String> includeApplications = new LinkedList<String>();
includeApplications.add("All");
applications.setIncludeApplications(includeApplications);
conditions.setApplications(applications);
ConditionalAccessUsers users = new ConditionalAccessUsers();
LinkedList<String> includeUsers = new LinkedList<String>();
includeUsers.add("4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc");
users.setIncludeUsers(includeUsers);
conditions.setUsers(users);
conditionalAccessPolicy.setConditions(conditions);
ConditionalAccessGrantControls grantControls = new ConditionalAccessGrantControls();
grantControls.setOperator("OR");
LinkedList<ConditionalAccessGrantControl> builtInControls = new LinkedList<ConditionalAccessGrantControl>();
builtInControls.add(ConditionalAccessGrantControl.Block);
grantControls.setBuiltInControls(builtInControls);
conditionalAccessPolicy.setGrantControls(grantControls);
ConditionalAccessPolicy result = graphClient.identity().conditionalAccess().policies().post(conditionalAccessPolicy);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const conditionalAccessPolicy = {
  displayName: 'Policy for risky sign-in block access',
  state: 'enabled',
  conditions: {
    signInRiskLevels: [
      'high',
      'medium'
    ],
    applications: {
      includeApplications: ['All']
    },
    users: {
      includeUsers: [
        '4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc'
      ]
    }
  },
  grantControls: {
    operator: 'OR',
    builtInControls: [
      'block'
    ]
  }
};

await client.api('/identity/conditionalAccess/policies')
	.post(conditionalAccessPolicy);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessPolicy;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessPolicyState;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessConditionSet;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\RiskLevel;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessApplications;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessUsers;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessGrantControls;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Models\ConditionalAccessGrantControl;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ConditionalAccessPolicy();
$requestBody->setDisplayName('Policy for risky sign-in block access');
$requestBody->setState(new ConditionalAccessPolicyState('enabled'));
$conditions = new ConditionalAccessConditionSet();
$conditions->setSignInRiskLevels([new RiskLevel('high'),new RiskLevel('medium'),	]);
$conditionsApplications = new ConditionalAccessApplications();
$conditionsApplications->setIncludeApplications(['All', 	]);
$conditions->setApplications($conditionsApplications);
$conditionsUsers = new ConditionalAccessUsers();
$conditionsUsers->setIncludeUsers(['4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc', 	]);
$conditions->setUsers($conditionsUsers);
$requestBody->setConditions($conditions);
$grantControls = new ConditionalAccessGrantControls();
$grantControls->setOperator('OR');
$grantControls->setBuiltInControls([new ConditionalAccessGrantControl('block'),	]);
$requestBody->setGrantControls($grantControls);

$result = $graphServiceClient->identity()->conditionalAccess()->policies()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	displayName = "Policy for risky sign-in block access"
	state = "enabled"
	conditions = @{
		signInRiskLevels = @(
		"high"
	"medium"
)
applications = @{
	includeApplications = @(
	"All"
)
}
users = @{
includeUsers = @(
"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"
)
}
}
grantControls = @{
operator = "OR"
builtInControls = @(
"block"
)
}
}

New-MgIdentityConditionalAccessPolicy -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_policy import ConditionalAccessPolicy
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_policy_state import ConditionalAccessPolicyState
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_condition_set import ConditionalAccessConditionSet
from msgraph.generated.models.risk_level import RiskLevel
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_applications import ConditionalAccessApplications
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_users import ConditionalAccessUsers
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_grant_controls import ConditionalAccessGrantControls
from msgraph.generated.models.conditional_access_grant_control import ConditionalAccessGrantControl
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ConditionalAccessPolicy(
	display_name = "Policy for risky sign-in block access",
	state = ConditionalAccessPolicyState.Enabled,
	conditions = ConditionalAccessConditionSet(
		sign_in_risk_levels = [
			RiskLevel.High,
			RiskLevel.Medium,
		],
		applications = ConditionalAccessApplications(
			include_applications = [
				"All",
			],
		),
		users = ConditionalAccessUsers(
			include_users = [
				"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
			],
		),
	),
	grant_controls = ConditionalAccessGrantControls(
		operator = "OR",
		built_in_controls = [
			ConditionalAccessGrantControl.Block,
		],
	),
)

result = await graph_client.identity.conditional_access.policies.post(request_body)

Response

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#identity/conditionalAccess/policies/$entity",
  "id": "9ad78153-b1f8-4714-adc1-1445727678a8",
  "displayName": "Policy for risky sign-in block access",
  "createdDateTime": "2020-11-03T20:56:38.6210843Z",
  "modifiedDateTime": null,
  "state": "enabled",
  "sessionControls": null,
  "conditions": {
    "signInRiskLevels": [
      "high",
      "medium"
    ],
    "clientAppTypes": [ 
      "all" 
    ],
    "platforms": null,
    "locations": null,
    "applications": {
      "includeApplications": [
        "All"
      ],
      "excludeApplications": [],
      "includeUserActions": []
    },
    "users": {
      "includeUsers": [
        "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"
      ],
      "excludeUsers": [],
      "includeGroups": [],
      "excludeGroups": [],
      "includeRoles": [],
      "excludeRoles": []
    }
  },
  "grantControls": {
    "operator": "OR",
    "builtInControls": [
      "block"
    ],
    "customAuthenticationFactors": [],
    "termsOfUse": []
  }
}

With this conditional access policy in place, MyTestUser1 account is now blocked from signing in because the sign-in risk level is medium or high.

Blocked sign-in

Step 6: Dismiss risky users

If you believe the user isn't at risk, and you don't want to enforce a conditional access policy, you can manually dismiss the risky user. The request returns a 204 No Content response.

Request

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identityProtection/riskyUsers/dismiss
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "userIds": [
    "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"
  ]
}


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.IdentityProtection.RiskyUsers.Dismiss;

var requestBody = new DismissPostRequestBody
{
	UserIds = new List<string>
	{
		"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
	},
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.IdentityProtection.RiskyUsers.Dismiss.PostAsync(requestBody);



mgc identity-protection risky-users dismiss post --body '{\
  "userIds": [\
    "4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"\
  ]\
}\
'



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphidentityprotection "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/identityprotection"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphidentityprotection.NewDismissPostRequestBody()
userIds := []string {
	"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
}
requestBody.SetUserIds(userIds)

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.IdentityProtection().RiskyUsers().Dismiss().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.identityprotection.riskyusers.dismiss.DismissPostRequestBody dismissPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.identityprotection.riskyusers.dismiss.DismissPostRequestBody();
LinkedList<String> userIds = new LinkedList<String>();
userIds.add("4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc");
dismissPostRequestBody.setUserIds(userIds);
graphClient.identityProtection().riskyUsers().dismiss().post(dismissPostRequestBody);


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const dismiss = {
  userIds: [
    '4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc'
  ]
};

await client.api('/identityProtection/riskyUsers/dismiss')
	.post(dismiss);


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\IdentityProtection\RiskyUsers\Dismiss\DismissPostRequestBody;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new DismissPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setUserIds(['4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc', 	]);

$graphServiceClient->identityProtection()->riskyUsers()->dismiss()->post($requestBody)->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

$params = @{
	userIds = @(
	"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc"
)
}

Invoke-MgDismissRiskyUser -BodyParameter $params


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.identityprotection.riskyusers.dismiss.dismiss_post_request_body import DismissPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = DismissPostRequestBody(
	user_ids = [
		"4628e7df-dff3-407c-a08f-75f08c0806dc",
	],
)

await graph_client.identity_protection.risky_users.dismiss.post(request_body)

After dismissing the risk user, you can rerun the request in Step 2 and will notice that the MyTestUser1 user account now has a risk level of none and a riskState of dismissed.

Step 7: Clean up resources

In this step, you delete the two conditional access policies that you created. The request returns a 204 No Content response.

DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/identity/conditionalAccess/policies/9ad78153-b1f8-4714-adc1-1445727678a8


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
await graphClient.Identity.ConditionalAccess.Policies["{conditionalAccessPolicy-id}"].DeleteAsync();



mgc identity conditional-access policies delete --conditional-access-policy-id {conditionalAccessPolicy-id}



// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
graphClient.Identity().ConditionalAccess().Policies().ByConditionalAccessPolicyId("conditionalAccessPolicy-id").Delete(context.Background(), nil)


// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

graphClient.identity().conditionalAccess().policies().byConditionalAccessPolicyId("{conditionalAccessPolicy-id}").delete();


const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

await client.api('/identity/conditionalAccess/policies/9ad78153-b1f8-4714-adc1-1445727678a8')
	.delete();


<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$graphServiceClient->identity()->conditionalAccess()->policies()->byConditionalAccessPolicyId('conditionalAccessPolicy-id')->delete()->wait();


Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.SignIns

Remove-MgIdentityConditionalAccessPolicy -ConditionalAccessPolicyId $conditionalAccessPolicyId


# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

await graph_client.identity.conditional_access.policies.by_conditional_access_policy_id('conditionalAccessPolicy-id').delete()

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Prerequisites

Step 1: Trigger a risk detection

Step 2: List risk detections

Request

Response

Step 3: Create a conditional access policy

Set up multifactor authentication

Create the conditional access policy

Request

Response

Step 5: List risk detections

[Optional] Block the user from signing in

Request

Response

Step 6: Dismiss risky users

Request

Step 7: Clean up resources

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Identify and remediate risks by using identity protection APIs

Prerequisites

Step 1: Trigger a risk detection

Step 2: List risk detections

Request

Response

Step 3: Create a conditional access policy

Set up multifactor authentication

Create the conditional access policy

Request

Response

Step 4: Trigger another risky sign in but complete multifactor authentication

Step 5: List risk detections

[Optional] Block the user from signing in

Request

Response

Step 6: Dismiss risky users

Request

Step 7: Clean up resources

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