Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Notify users about hidden content matches in Communication Compliance

🚨 The Signal: Purview Communication Compliance now notifies investigators when policy matches occur in hidden content like hyperlinks. This improves detection transparency and efficiency for security teams by highlighting non-obvious keyword triggers.

The Impact

Security and compliance teams are affected, reducing the risk of overlooked policy violations in hidden content.

• Security Teams: Reduced risk of missing hidden policy violations.
• Compliance Teams: Improved efficiency in reviewing communication compliance alerts.
• Investigators: Faster identification of non-obvious keyword matches.
• Organisations: Enhanced ability to enforce data loss prevention policies.

The Action

1. Review existing Communication Compliance policies for keyword sensitivity.
2. Communicate new notification capabilities to compliance investigators.
3. Monitor Purview audit logs for new hidden content match detections.
4. Update incident response playbooks to account for hidden content matches.

Domain: Purview · Impact: medium · Workload: Microsoft Purview