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MC354698: Insider Risk Management: New feature enhancements coming to public preview

In April, we will be rolling out two new features in public preview to enhance your Insider risk management policies and workflows. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88898, 88902.

Customize a policy to trigger on an anomalous activity (e.g., unusual amount of emails with attachments sent outside the organization). Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

Enhancements to Analytics including ability to leverage Analytics to recommend thresholds for data leak and departing employee data theft policies and inclusions of Sequence detection within Analytics. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

MC354698: Insider Risk Management: New feature enhancements coming to public preview

When this will happen

Rollout will begin in late April and is expected to be complete by late May.

How this will affect your organization

The following preview features will soon appear as options within Insider risk management settings:

  • Enhancements to Analytics: Enhancements to Analytics including ability to leverage Analytics to recommend thresholds for data leak and departing employee data theft policies and inclusions of Sequence detection within Analytics.
  • Anomaly-as-a-Policy-Trigger: Customize a policy to trigger on an anomalous activity (e.g., unusual number of emails with attachments sent outside the organization).

What you need to do to prepare

Access the Insider Risk Management solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

Learn more

Message ID: MC354698
Published: 07 April 2022
Updated: 07 April 2022

Alex Lim is a certified IT Technical Support Architect with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex IT systems and networks. He has worked for leading IT companies, such as Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco, providing technical support and solutions to clients across various industries and sectors. Alex has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore and a master’s degree in information security from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the author of several best-selling books on IT technical support, such as The IT Technical Support Handbook and Troubleshooting IT Systems and Networks. Alex lives in Bandar, Johore, Malaysia with his wife and two chilrdren. You can reach him at [email protected] or follow him on Website | Twitter | Facebook

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