Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance

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Classification:

attack

Goal

Detect when Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance raises an alert.

Strategy

You can use alert policies and the alert dashboard in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal or the Microsoft 365 Defender portal to create alert policies and then view the alerts generated when users perform activities that match the conditions of an alert policy.

Alert signals include:

Triage and response

  1. Investigate the Microsoft 365 alert to determine if it is malicious or benign.
  2. If the finding is deemed malicious, follow the remediation guidance provided by Microsoft and also any internal incident response processes.