M365EXO-043: User click tracking enabled (MS.EXO.15.3)
- Platform
- Entra ID / M365
- Category
- Advanced Threat Protection
- Severity
- Medium
- Zero Trust pillar
- Applications & Workloads (weight 1)
- Golden fixtures
- 3
- Branch coverage
- Observed: fixtures prove the verdicts they exercise
- Provenance
- baseline
What it checks
SCuBA MS.EXO.15.3 recommends that user click tracking be enabled. Click tracking records when users click links in mail, providing after-the-fact visibility into whether a malicious link may have been visited. This is essential for scoping and responding to incidents involving phishing links.
Recommended value
Safe Links (or comparable) policy with click tracking enabled (DoNotTrackUserClicks = False)
Remediation
Ensure user click tracking is enabled in the Safe Links or comparable policy so that clicks on links in mail are recorded (the do-not-track option should be off). Apply the policy to all users. Confirm click telemetry is available in the relevant reporting surface for incident investigation.
Fixture-proven verdicts
Every verdict below is proven by a golden fixture in the module's gating test suite. This table derives from the last green run; it cannot be edited by hand.
| Scenario | Expected verdict |
|---|---|
| clean | PASS |
| known-bad | WARN |
| throttled | Not Assessed |
Framework mappings
- NIST SP 800-53
- AU-2, SI-4
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1566.002