Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Information Protection & Governance now supports 7 languages for the Threat, Targeted Harassment and Profanities classifiers

Trainable classifiers in Information Protection & Governance can now detect threat, targeted harassment, and profanities in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/classifier-learn-about?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to User Activity experience

Within the user activity tab in a case, we have made enhancements to improve the activity review experience.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-cases?view=o365-worldwide#user-activity

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Microsoft Compliance center: Communication Compliance analyze linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint online (modern attachments)

Communication compliance policies that detect violations in Microsoft Teams will now analyze the content of documents shared in chat for potential policy match.

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Microsoft Compliance center: Additional third-party data connectors (Veritas)

Use data connectors to import and archive third-party data from social media platforms, instant messaging platforms, document collaboration platforms and more, to mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 organization where you can then apply various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions to the imported data. This helps you ensure that your organization’s non-Microsoft data is in compliance with the regulations and standards that affect your organization. There are more additional connectors to come from Veritas (formerly Globanet).
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/archiving-third-party-data?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Guided onboarding experience: recommended actions

Recommended actions that an admin should take for a complete onboarding experience. In-product guided walkthrough on how to complete onboarding actions such as selecting indictors, setting up a policy, and how to investigate an alert.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/insider-risk-management-configure?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – DLP policy recommendation

We are surfacing Communication Compliance policy recommendations within the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) workflow, with the ability to apply DLP policy insights to your insider risk practice to better identify user behavior and intent. Customers will now be directed to configure a relevant policy in Communication Compliance at the end of the DLP policy configuration flow.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance discrimination classifier

Currently available in public preview, the Discrimination classifier aims to detect and triage explicit discriminatory language.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Review activity summary

This new Communication Compliance report provides a comprehensive summary of all activities and actions that have occurred against a policy, such as date sent, date flagged, reviewed by, message reconciliation, etc. By providing visibility into policy review activity, organizations will be able to easily fulfill regulatory compliance obligations and can better track the status and progress for unresolved policy violations.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide

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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.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Day zero insights

Communication Compliance Day Zero Insights helps organizations discover concerning behavior that they may not be aware of, like harassment, threats, or sharing of sensitive information, without even configuring a policy. This evaluation can help organizations identify potential areas of higher risk and determine the type and scope of communication policies to configure. For example, a trend of threatening language may be surfaced in Teams chats, and customers can easily configure a policy to detect threats sent over Teams channels.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide

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