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Grant Cloud App Security access to Microsoft Teams (Chat) to allow Cloud App Security to run advanced threat protection and data loss prevention scanning on messages and files in protected private chats.
Important
Important
  • Cloud App Security protects the Teams and Chat services in Microsoft Teams separately.
  • Cloud App Security does not protect the messages and files in the chats that users have with themselves.
As Microsoft's licensing models for Teams APIs impose usage restrictions and licensing requirements on API calls, you need to use your own app registered with Microsoft Entra ID and select an applicable licensing model when granting access to Teams Chat. For details about the licensing models, see Microsoft Documentation.
The following table summarizes the licensing models and the supported Cloud App Security protection under each model.
Model
Licensing and Payment Requirements
Supported Cloud App Security Protection
Model A
  • An appropriate Microsoft 365 E5 license
  • Payment to Microsoft when the API usage exceeds the upper limit
  • Scan messages and files.
  • Block or pass messages and files upon detecting risks.
Model B
  • Payment to Microsoft for each API call
  • No license required
  • Scan messages and files.
  • Pass messages and files upon detecting risks.
    Note
    Note
    Blocking messages or files is not supported.
Evaluation Mode
No license or payment required
  • Scan messages and files.
  • Block or pass messages and files upon detecting risks.
Note
Note
As this model provides limited API calls, Cloud App Security can scan and take action on only a limited number of messages and files.
Important
Important
If you have already granted access to Teams Chat in the old way without creating your own app, Evaluation Mode applies. Trend Micro recommends that you update the access grant to have access to all the licensing models and continued Cloud App Security protection by performing the following:
Go to Administration → Service Account, locate your Teams Chat service account, click Protect with Your Own App, and complete the access grant by referring to the operations in this topic.
Private chat files are stored in the sender's OneDrive folder. If you have also granted Cloud App Security access to OneDrive, when the user sending or uploading a file is selected as a policy target respectively, Cloud App Security applies the corresponding policies for Teams Chat and for OneDrive to this file.
The steps outlined below detail how to grant access to Teams Chat from Dashboard.

Procedure

  1. Go to Dashboard → Service Status.
  2. Click Grant Access in the Action column for Teams Chat.
    The Grant Access to Teams Chat screen appears.
  3. Create an app in Microsoft Entra ID for protecting Teams Chat.
    For details, see Creating an Microsoft Entra ID app for Teams protection.
  4. Specify the app ID and secret, select the policy to enable automatically when the access grant is complete, and click Grant Permission.
    Cloud App Security uses the secret to obtain an access token from Microsoft.
    Note
    Note
    • If for some reason the access token becomes invalid after the access grant, go to Administration → Service Account to create a new access token for the service account. For more information, see Service account.
    • If the secret becomes invalid or you want to change to another app after the access grant, go to Administration → Service Account, locate your Teams Chat service account, and click Update Secret or Change App to start replacing the secret or changing to another app. The subsequent procedure is the same as the access grant process described in this topic.
  5. Specify your Office 365 Global Administrator credentials and click Sign in.
    The Microsoft authorization screen appears.
  6. Click Accept to grant Cloud App Security permission to use the Graph API to access your Teams Chat related service data.
  7. Wait until the process is completed.
    If the message "Successfully created a service account and synced data." appears on the screen, the access grant is successful.
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