Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Increasing policy template limits for Insider Risk Management

🚨 The Signal: Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management now allows up to 100 active policies across all templates, up from 20 per template. This significantly expands an organisation's ability to detect and prevent insider threats like data exfiltration and IP theft.

The Impact

Security teams are affected by the increased policy capacity, reducing the risk of undetected insider threats.

• Security teams: Can implement more specific policies to detect data leakage.
• Compliance officers: Better coverage for regulatory requirements regarding data protection.
• Risk managers: Enhanced ability to identify and mitigate insider threats.
• Legal teams: Improved evidence collection for potential policy violations.

The Action

1. Review existing Insider Risk Management policies in Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
2. Identify new insider risk scenarios requiring dedicated policies.
3. Create additional Insider Risk Management policies to leverage the increased limit.
4. Monitor policy effectiveness and adjust as needed.

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