{"id":7925,"date":"2024-05-22T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2024-08-22T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:51:37","slug":"single-sign-on-is-insecure-because-stolen-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/single-sign-on-is-insecure-because-stolen-tokens","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;single sign on is insecure because stolen tokens&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I sat down with an IT provider today who stated they don&#8217;t use SSO because its insecure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said its insecure because if the Token gets stolen from the Vendor then the token could be used to authenticate to other providers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/o365reports.com\/2023\/03\/22\/stop-phishing-attacks-by-token-protection-in-azuread-conditional-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conditional Access<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft has protection against this using&nbsp;CA only seems to protect employees who are logging in via an Azure AD machine, which all our work computers are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there is another Conditional Access feature that can protect you:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/active-directory\/authentication\/tutorial-risk-based-sspr-mfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Risk-based user sign-in protection in Azure Active Directory &#8211; Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn<\/a>. With this turned on, a user attempting to connect using the stolen credential from an unusual IP address should trigger an MFA prompt, which the attacker will not be able to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/microsoft-entra-blog\/how-to-break-the-token-theft-cyber-attack-chain\/ba-p\/4062700\">How to break the token theft cyber-attack chain &#8211; Microsoft Community Hub<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/entra\/identity\/conditional-access\/howto-conditional-access-session-lifetime\">https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/entra\/identity\/conditional-access\/howto-conditional-access-session-lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Token protection ( Preview Only Supports 365 Apps and Services during Preview at the moment ) <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Binds the token to the device so it can&#8217;t be used elsewhere <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/entra\/identity\/conditional-access\/concept-token-protection\">https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/entra\/identity\/conditional-access\/concept-token-protection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down with an IT provider today who stated they don&#8217;t use SSO because its insecure. They said its insecure because if the Token gets stolen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8229,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions\/8229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}