Sophos connects to Intune and requires you to sign in to your Intune subscription. In the Microsoft Intune authentication window, enter your Intune credentials and Accept the permissions request for Sophos Mobile Thread Defense. On the Sophos setup page, select Save to complete the configuration for Intune. Sophos stops everything malicious and provides us with alerts, so we can respond quickly—and that’s worth its weight in gold.” Cliff Hogan, CIO, D4C Dental Brands Switching to Sophos Central was a simple transition and 80% of the work was carried out within just one week.”.
Intune is a Microsoft service to manage mobile devices and apps. With Mobile Threat Defense, you connect Sophos Mobile to your Intune account and use the security status reported by Sophos Intercept X for Mobile to control access to work resources. You set up Mobile Threat Defense both in Sophos Mobile Admin and in the Microsoft Azure portal. Mobile Threat Defense with Sophos Intercept X for Mobile. Sophos Intercept X for Mobile is a Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solution for your Android and iOS devices. Intune app protection. Set up Microsoft Intune integration; Create Intune app protection policy; Assign apps to an Intune app protection policy; Assign users to an Intune app. To continue to Microsoft Azure. Email, phone, or Skype.
-->During Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) setup, you've configured a policy for classifying threats in your Mobile Threat Defense partner console and you've created the device compliance policy in Intune. If you've already configured the Intune connector in the MTD partner console, you can now enable the MTD connection for MTD partner applications.
Note
This topic applies to all Mobile Threat Defense partners.
Classic conditional access policies for MTD apps
When you integrate a new application to Intune Mobile Threat Defense and enable the connection to Intune, Intune creates a classic conditional access policy in Azure Active Directory. Each MTD app you integrate, including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint or any of our additional MTD partners, creates a new classic conditional access policy. These policies can be ignored, but shouldn't be edited, deleted, or disabled.
If the classic policy is deleted, you'll need to delete the connection to Intune that was responsible for its creation, and then set it up again. This process recreates the classic policy. It's not supported to migrate classic policies for MTD apps to the new policy type for conditional access.
Classic conditional access policies for MTD apps:
Are used by Intune MTD to require that devices are registered in Azure AD so that they have a device ID before communicating to MTD partners. The ID is required so that devices and can successfully report their status to Intune.
Have no effect on any other Cloud apps or Resources.
Are distinct from conditional access policies you might create to help manage MTD.
By default, don't interact with other conditional access policies you use for evaluation.
To view classic conditional access policies, in Azure, go to Azure Active Directory > Conditional Access > Classic policies.
To enable the Mobile Threat Defense connector
Sign in to the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center.
Select Tenant administration > Connectors and tokens > Mobile Threat Defense.
On the Mobile Threat Defense pane, select Add.
For Mobile Threat Defense connector to setup, select your MTD solution from the drop-down list.
Enable the toggle options according to your organization's requirements. Toggle options visible will vary depending on the MTD partner. For example, the following image shows the options that are available for Symantec Endpoint Protection:
Mobile Threat Defense toggle options
You can decide which MTD toggle options you need to enable according to your organization's requirements. Not all of the following options are supported by all Mobile Thread Defense partners:
MDM Compliance Policy Settings
Connect Android devices of version <supported versions> to <MTD partner name>: When you enable this option, you can have Android 4.1+ devices reporting security risk back to Intune.
Connect iOS devices version <supported versions> to <MTD partner name>: When you enable this option, you can have iOS 8.0+ devices reporting security risk back to Intune.
Enable App Sync for iOS Devices: Allows this Mobile Threat Defense partner to request metadata of iOS applications from Intune to use for threat analysis purposes. This iOS device must be MDM-enrolled device and will provide updated app data during device check-in. You can find standard Intune policy check-in frequencies in the Refresh cycle times.
Note
On devices marked as corporate, all apps are shared with the Mobile Threat Defense vendor, while on devices marked as personal, only Intune managed apps are shared.
Block unsupported OS versions: Block if the device is running an operating system less than the minimum supported version.
App Protection Policy Settings
Connect Android devices of version <supported versions> to <MTD partner name> for app protection policy evaluation: When you enable this option, app protection policies using the Device Threat Level rule will evaluate devices including data from this connector.
Connect iOS devices version <supported versions> to <MTD partner name> for app protection policy evaluation: When you enable this option, app protection policies using the Device Threat Level rule will evaluate devices including data from this connector.
To learn more about using Mobile Threat Defense connectors for Intune App Protection Policy evaluation, see Set up Mobile Threat Defense for unenrolled devices.
Common Shared Settings
- Number of days until partner is unresponsive: Number of days of inactivity before Intune considers the partner to be unresponsive because the connection is lost. Intune ignores compliance state for unresponsive MTD partners.
Important
When possible, we recommend that you add and assign the MTD apps before creating the device compliance and the Conditional Access policy rules. This helps ensures that the MTD app is ready and available for end users to install before they can get access to email or other company resources.
Tip
Uninstall Sophos Intune
You can see the Connection status and the Last synchronized time between Intune and the MTD partner from the Mobile Threat Defense pane.
Sophos Intune
Next steps
Sophos Intune Update
- Create Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) app protection policy with Intune.
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