Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention – Archived file support

Support the scanning for sensitive content in ZIP and ARJ archive files.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention – Contextual policy conditions

Support to identify when a file is sensitive based upon the file type or extension. Extend your Endpoint DLP policy controls to detect and protect even more content types such as CAD drawing files, video and audio files, and custom file types used in your specific industry.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Alerts and notifications for score changes

This feature will allow admins to set monitoring policies on top of Compliance Manager activities such as score change, improvement action assignment, and evidence upload. A successful policy match will generate an alert which will allow admins to further investigate.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Additional classifier language support

To expand the ability to detect policy violations in communications beyond English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese, Communication Compliance built-in classifiers (threat, harassment, and profanity) now support these additional four languages: Arabic, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese Traditional. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft Compliance center: Information Governance – Records management multi-stage disposition review (Government Clouds)

This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/disposition?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Alerts and notifications for score changes (US Government clouds)

This feature will allow admins to set monitoring policies on top of Compliance Manager activities such as score change, improvement action assignment, and evidence upload. A successful policy match will generate an alert which will allow admins to further investigate.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Recommendation wizard for bulk assessment creation (US Government clouds)

Compliance Manager can indicate which assessments may be most relevant to your organization. When you provide basic information about your organization’s industry and locations, we’ll recommend which templates to use from our library of over 300 templates. Simply choose among the recommended templates for quick setup of multiple assessments all at once.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/compliance-manager-assessments?view=o365-worldwide#create-assessments

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Governance – Power Automate integration

Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to Cumulative exfiltration anomaly detector (CEAD)

CEAD will include experience enhancements to make it easier to evaluate the risk as well as leverage priority content and document sensitivities to further prioritize alerts. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Information Protection: Auditing and Analytics in Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac (GCC, GCC-H)

Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac will send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.

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