Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes

🚨 The Signal: Purview Communication Compliance now supports adaptive policy scopes, automatically updating user groups based on Azure AD attributes. This enhances compliance by ensuring policies always cover relevant users without manual updates, reducing the risk of oversight.

The Impact

Security teams and compliance officers are affected by improved policy management and reduced risk of non-compliance due to outdated user scopes.

• Compliance Officers: Reduced risk of regulatory non-compliance due to dynamic policy updates.
• Security Teams: Enhanced ability to enforce communication policies consistently across evolving user groups.
• IT Admins: Less manual effort in managing user lists for compliance policies.

The Action

1. Navigate to Microsoft Purview compliance portal > Communication compliance.
2. Create a new policy or edit an existing one.
3. Under 'Users and groups', select 'Adaptive policy scopes'.
4. Define criteria based on Azure AD attributes (e.g., geography, department, group membership).
5. Review and publish the policy.

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