Purview Adaptive Protection Automates Data Preservation for High-Risk Users

🚨 The Signal: Microsoft Purview's Adaptive Protection now integrates with Data Lifecycle Management to automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files for users identified as high insider risk, based on their data-related activities.

The Impact

Security teams can automatically preserve data for high-risk users, reducing data loss and improving compliance posture.

• Security Teams: Gain automated data preservation for high-risk users, enhancing insider risk management.
• Compliance Teams: Benefit from automatic application of retention labels, improving data governance and regulatory adherence.
• Organizations: Reduce potential data loss from high-risk users, strengthening overall data protection.

The Action

1. Access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
2. Navigate to Adaptive Protection settings.
3. Configure policies to integrate with Data Lifecycle Management for automatic retention label application.
4. Monitor user risk levels and policy application.

Domain: Purview · Impact: medium · Workload: Microsoft Purview · Essential Eight: Application Control · ISM: ISM-0974, ISM-1654