Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Communication Compliance-Timeline view of user activity

🚨 The Signal: Purview Communication Compliance now offers a timeline view of user interactions, including generative AI usage. This enhances reviewer context for risky behaviour, improving incident response and compliance oversight.

The Impact

Security teams and compliance officers are affected, gaining better visibility into user risk, reducing investigation time.

• Security Teams: Improved visibility into risky user behaviour, reducing investigation time.
• Compliance Officers: Enhanced context for policy violations, leading to more informed decisions.
• Legal Teams: Better evidence gathering for potential legal or HR actions.
• AI Governance Teams: Clearer insights into user interaction with generative AI, aiding policy enforcement.

The Action

1. Review existing Communication Compliance policies for scope and detection rules: Microsoft Purview compliance portal > Communication compliance > Policies.
2. Familiarise compliance reviewers with the new timeline view functionality.
3. Update internal incident response playbooks to leverage the enhanced context provided by the timeline view.
4. Consider refining generative AI usage policies based on insights gained from monitoring.

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