Define an IP range in Cloud App Security

For me, Office 365 Cloud App Security is a must have add on for any Microsoft or Office 365 tenant as I have spoken about here:

A great security add on for Microsoft 365

As with all services, once you have enabled it you need to do some customisation to get the best from it. The first thing you should do is define your ‘corporate’ IP addresses. These typically refer to your on premises environment.

The first step in defining these is to access Office 365 Cloud App security, which you can do from the Microsoft 365 Security Center. Once at the home page, select the COG in the top right hand corner.

That should reveal a menu like you see above. From this menu select the option IP address ranges.

Then select the Category option in the middle of the page and the option for Corporate.

You will then see an IP address ranges that have been defined as ‘corporate’ already. To add more ranges simply select the + (plus) button in the upper right. Doing show will provide you a dialog box like shown above where you can now enter the appropriate details.

Why is defining your ‘corporate’ IP addresses important? It helps prevent false positives, especially when you have multiple locations. This is handy when you start setting up rules in Office 365 Cloud App Security, you can easily use the ‘corporate’ definition to designate your known environment. It means also that when you add new locations you don;t have to go and change all your rules, just add top the ‘corporate’ IP range list.