Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails

🚨 The Signal: Purview Communication Compliance can now exclude spam and bulk emails from policy matches. This reduces noise, allowing security teams to focus on genuine compliance violations and improving investigation efficiency.

The Impact

Security and compliance teams are affected by reduced alert fatigue, improving the focus on actual risks.

• Security teams: Reduced false positives, improving focus on critical alerts.
• Compliance officers: More efficient policy enforcement and investigation workflows.
• Admins: Less time spent on irrelevant alert management.
• Investigators: Clearer view of actual policy violations.

The Action

1. Review existing Communication Compliance policies in Purview portal.
2. For new policies, confirm default spam/bulk email filtering is enabled.
3. For existing policies, enable spam/bulk email filtering if desired.
4. Monitor policy match efficiency post-configuration.

Domain: Purview · Impact: low · Workload: Microsoft Purview