Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Healthcare connector and policy template

,New healthcare policy template with built-in indicators that leverages data from Epic and other electronic medical records (EMR) solutions – using our Data Connectors – to help healthcare companies identify potential insider risks related to patient data misuse.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-configure?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: November CY2021

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Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies support overwriting manual label and encrypting mail received from any organization

,New and existing Exchange auto-labeling policies can be configured to apply encryption to email received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to enforce classification on any email by replacing existing manual labels that have the same or lower label priority.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/apply-sensitivity-label-automatically?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies support overwriting manual label and encrypting mail received from any organization

,New and existing Exchange auto-labeling policies can be configured to apply encryption to email received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to enforce classification on any email by replacing existing manual labels that have the same or lower label priority.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/apply-sensitivity-label-automatically?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: General availability of Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity explorer

Power BI will now send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85685

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Governance – Allow record label to start “unlocked” for manual records declaration

,Organizations sometimes need the ability to declare a file as a record after a period of collaboration. This update allows records managers to apply a record label to content but allow collaboration. Users can then toggle a switch when ready to lock the file and prevent edits.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/get-started-with-records-management?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Barriers – Segments and Policies landing pages

,The Information Barriers solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center enables organizations to restrict communication and collaboration between two user groups to avoid a conflict of interest from occurring. This user experience (UX) update adds solution landing pages for management of segments and policies.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/information-barriers-policies?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: November CY2021

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Governance – Configuration option to block the ability to edit metadata for records

,This update allows records management admins to prevent users from editing metadata on items designated as records on SharePoint and OneDrive.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/get-started-with-records-management?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: December CY2021

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Privacy management – Privacy API

To meet customers where they are in their privacy journey, we have built programmatic access to APIs so that customers can use their homegrown app or an ISV app to automatically create and manage subject rights requests in the Privacy management solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/compliance-concept-overview#privacy-api

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Device indicators

These include policy indicators for activities such as sharing files over the network or with devices. This
is currently available in public preview.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-settings?view=o365-worldwide#indicators

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Intelligent detections: Domain settings

You can specify domains in global settings which helps you to increase or decrease the risk scoring for activity that takes place with these domains. Additionally, you can use wildcards to help match variations of root domains or subdomains. This
is currently available in public preview.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-settings?view=o365-worldwide#domains-preview

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