Permission Required to access Attack Simulation training eventhough I've been assigned the role

Question

Hello,

As per guide in attack-simulation-training-get-started, I should have the role to be able to access. I've been assigned as the Security Administrator from our AAD and I still got this permission issue when trying to access the Attack Simulation Training menu in Microsoft 365 defender portal attacksimulator. am I missing something?

Answer 1

It turns out I need both "security Administrator" role and license of MS E5 or MS Defendender (plan 2).

Answer 2

@Ainul Jasni
I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to "Accept" the answer.

Summary:
When following the Get started using Attack simulation training in Defender for Office 365 documentation, the What do you need to know before you begin section mentioned your user needing to be assigned one of the following roles - Global Administrator, Security Administrator, Attack Simulation Administrators, or Attack Payload Author.

Issue:
After assigning your user the Security Administrator role within Azure Active Directory, you still ran into issues when trying to access the Attack Simulation Training menu within the Microsoft 365 defender portal.

Solution:
To resolve this issue, you needed both the Security Administrator role and the Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 2 license.

I noticed that the license info was mentioned at the beginning of the article but could be easily missed when referencing the What do you need to know before you begin section. I created a GitHub issue so our content team can add the license info to prevent this from happening to future customers.

If you have any other questions, please let me know.
Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.

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