Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

🚨 The Signal: Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance now supports granular, user-scoped Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). This allows security teams to delegate investigation and policy management authority to specific personnel for defined user groups, enhancing data segregation and reducing over-privileging.

The Impact

Security and compliance teams are affected by improved delegation capabilities, reducing the risk of unauthorized data access.

• Compliance Admins: Can delegate investigation tasks more securely.
• Security Teams: Reduced risk of over-privileged access to sensitive communications.
• Legal Teams: Enhanced ability to comply with regional data access requirements.
• Auditors: Improved auditability of access to communication compliance data.

The Action

1. Navigate to Microsoft Purview compliance portal > Roles & scopes > Communication compliance.
2. Create new role groups with specific permissions for 'Communication Compliance Investigators' or 'Communication Compliance Admins'.
3. Define user scopes for each role group, specifying which users' communications they can access or manage.
4. Assign relevant personnel to these newly created, scoped role groups.

Domain: Purview · Impact: medium · Workload: Microsoft Purview · Essential Eight: Restrict Administrative Privileges · ISM: ISM-0445, ISM-1175, ISM-1380, ISM-1507, ISM-1508, ISM-1509, ISM-1647, ISM-1648, ISM-1650, ISM-1686, ISM-1688, ISM-1689, ISM-1883, ISM-1897, ISM-1898