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Several tools and data sources enhance the capabilities of Insider Risk Management by providing additional signals or enabling centralized management. These include:

• HR and healthcare connectors: Import employee and healthcare data to support policy creation and refine risk detection.
• Cloud app integrations: Use detections from cloud apps like Amazon S3 or Salesforce to identify activities that could pose risks to sensitive data.
• Data loss prevention (DLP): Link high-severity DLP alerts to insider risk policies to help prevent unintentional or intentional data leaks.
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Integrate endpoint security alerts to provide additional context for risk assessments.
• SIEM and SOAR platforms: Export alerts to solutions like Microsoft Sentinel for centralized alert management and automated responses.

These integrations provide flexible ways to enhance risk detection, align with organizational needs, and maintain compliance.

Example use cases

Integrations can address common risk scenarios, such as:

• Departing employees: Use HR connectors to include resignation data in policies that assess potential risks of data exfiltration.
• Healthcare privacy: Apply healthcare connectors to analyze audit logs for unauthorized access to patient records, supporting compliance with privacy regulations.
• Centralized alert management: Export alerts to SIEM systems like Microsoft Sentinel to unify risk alerts with other security data, enabling faster response times.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management enables organizations to identify and manage insider risks by using data from various sources and security tools. Integrating these data sources helps refine risk detection, improve policy effectiveness, and support thorough investigations—while maintaining user privacy and respecting organizational policies.

What are connectors?

Connectors allow Insider Risk Management to import data from internal and external systems. This data provides insights that support the creation of effective policies and the identification of relevant patterns or activities. The imported data is securely managed and used to align with organizational goals and compliance requirements.

Examples include:

• HR connectors: Use employee lifecycle data, such as resignation or termination dates, to inform policies about departing employees.
• Healthcare connectors: Import electronic health record (EHR) audit data to help identify unauthorized access or data handling.
• Cloud app connectors: Bring in detections from non-Microsoft applications, such as Dropbox or Google Drive, to expand visibility into data usage.

These integrations focus on providing actionable insights, enabling organizations to respond to risks proactively while respecting privacy.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management enables organizations to identify and mitigate internal risks by detecting potentially harmful activities. Settings are a foundational part of this solution, defining how risks are detected, scored, and managed across your organization. Understanding these settings and how they work ensures your policies align with organizational needs while reducing unnecessary alerts and noise.

How Insider Risk Management settings work

Insider Risk Management settings operate globally, affecting all policies regardless of the template you choose. These settings allow you to:

• Customize how user activities are analyzed and scored.
• Prioritize evaluating activities for specific users or groups.
• Ensure compliance with privacy and data handling requirements.
• Reduce false positives by refining detection criteria.

By tailoring these settings, you can focus on the risks most relevant to your organization while maintaining operational efficiency.

If your organization operates in multiple regions, compliance and privacy regulations might vary. Address these differences by tailoring your policies and processes to specific regions or roles. Consider these factors:

• Design policies that restrict access to sensitive information based on location or role.
• Assign investigators fluent in the languages used by employees to streamline reviews.
• Maintain privacy by anonymizing user identities during investigations whenever possible.

This tailored approach ensures that insider risk management supports compliance while maintaining trust with employees.

Define roles and permissions

Insider Risk Management uses role-based access controls to delegate responsibilities effectively. For instance, an investigator might review alerts related to data theft while administrators manage policy configurations globally. Plan for the following key roles:

• Administrators to configure global settings and policies.
• Analysts and Investigators to review alerts and manage cases.
• Viewers to review dashboards for trends and risks.

Assign these roles based on organizational responsibilities, ensuring that each team member has access to the tools and data they need.

ts data, systems, or people. These risks are a growing concern for businesses. To address them, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management provides tools to detect, investigate, and respond to potentially harmful activities.

Before implementing these tools, it’s essential to plan your strategy, ensure all prerequisites are met, and configure the solution to fit your organization’s needs.

Plan for Insider Risk Management

Preparing to implement Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management requires careful planning and collaboration across your organization.

Collaborate with stakeholders

Effective insider risk management begins with identifying the right stakeholders. Since insider risks often span multiple functions, collaboration across departments is crucial. Your planning team should include representatives from:

• IT and security: Configure systems and ensure technical integrations.
• Compliance and privacy: Align policies with regulatory requirements.
• Human resources: Provide context for role changes or employee departures.
• Legal: Address cases requiring escalation to legal oversight.

By working together, these groups can create a cohesive approach to managing alerts and cases while respecting privacy and maintaining objectivity.

Microsoft Viva Insights is part of Microsoft Viva. Viva Insights provides privacy-protected insights and actionable recommendations that help everyone in the organization work smarter and achieve balance. Employees can get personal insights that only they can see to help identify opportunities to help build better work habits. Team and organization insights can empower managers and business leaders to identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and bring balance to productivity and wellbeing. Through advanced insights, understand the impact of hybrid work on your people and your business and address the challenges important to your organization.

Personal Insights

Employees can gain valuable insights to improve work patterns through actionable recommendations created just for them.

Viva Insights in Microsoft Teams and on the web

• The Home tab helps you discover insights and actions to improve wellbeing, productivity, and teamwork.
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Setting up a device for students can be thought of in a similar way. Personalizing a device sets up students for success as they utilize it. Giving them ownership of this is not only important, but imperative, as they navigate the challenges of using it for greater learning purposes. Students need to know how to access these options and be able to go back and change them if something isn’t working the way they prefer it to work. The accessibility settings provide many tools for students to use their device to its optimal level.

Empowering ALL students to be independent learners by simplifying and personalizing the learning experience is more than just adapting work for students. It is about students creating that experience for themselves. Whether they are in kindergarten or high school, students can create an experience that promotes independence and engagement in learning.

Office 365 is designed to boost productivity for people of all abilities and enable inclusive communications.

• Consume
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Microsoft gained valuable insights into how AI is going to transform work from the millions of customers and employees who are already using Microsoft 365 Copilot. Its early findings show that there’s both an art and a science to working with AI. One of its key findings is that what you get out of it depends on how you ask.

This new way of working is sorely needed. Over the past few years, the pace and volume of work continue to rise. According to data from searches across Microsoft 365 services, on any given workday, Microsoft’s heaviest Microsoft 365 users:

• Search for what they need 18 times.
• Receive more than 250 emails.
• Send or read nearly 150 chats.

Across the globe, users of Microsoft Teams are in three times more meetings each week than they were in 2020. And on Windows, some people use 11 apps in a single day to get their work done.

AI helps lift the weight of work, augmenting human capability and accelerating everyone’s innate ingenuity. When leaders learn how to effectively harness the power of AI, they can empower their people to embrace this new era of AI-powered productivity and reap the benefits for their organization.

If your team is constantly managing work, then they’re not actually working. You and your team need an efficient process for managing that work so you can focus on delivering quality work on time. Microsoft 365 streamlines work management through a set of purpose-built tools that add structure to all elements such as tasks, status updates, schedules, projects, etc. that go into delivering quality business results. With a more efficient approach to the process of work, your team has more time to collaborate on the work itself.

The work management tools through Microsoft 365 allow your teams to work the way they want, giving organizations the results they need. The work management tools available include Microsoft Project, Planner, Bookings, To Do, Forms, Lists and Loop. These apps are all designed to help individuals and teams get organized, stay on track, and collaborate more effectively by offering specialized tools for task management, scheduling, data collection, and real-time co-creation.