Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Site URL and keyword exclusions

Enable admins to reduce signal noise by configuring SharePoint site URLs and keywords exclusions, so activities involving these sites, or file names and email subject lines containing certain keywords won’t generate alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Teams: New Net Promoter Score survey in Teams Rooms on Windows

Capture meeting room participant feedback and help make Teams Rooms experiences better with the new Net Promotor Score (NPS) survey that occasionally appears on Teams Rooms on Windows consoles upon leaving a Teams Meeting.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File path exclusions

Enable admins to reduce signal noise by configuring file path exclusions, so activities around files with specific file paths won’t generate alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft defender for Office 365: Priority Account User tags filtering in the URL protection report

We are adding a new filter to the URL protection report that will allow security admins to easily filter for Users who are in the Priority Account tag of their organization. This capability will be extremely valuable in helping security teams prioritize focus on critical individuals within the organization while reviewing the URL threat details in the report.
More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/announcing-priority-account-protection-in-microsoft-defender-for/ba-p/1696385

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sensitivity label downgrade activities

Insider Risk Management can detect users downgrading sensitivity labels on files or SharePoint sites. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence

Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Bulk import and export of domains

This feature will allow admins to upload or download a CSV file of unallowed, allowed, and third-party domains defined by admins with the right permissions in insider risk settings to fine-tune the detection of activities involving certain domains. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Message Reminders in Outlook for iOS and Android

Outlook for iOS and Android will soon roll out Message Reminders, a feature that pulls emails that users may want to reply to up to the top of their inboxes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126517

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Microsoft Syntex: Prebuilt model for contracts

We will soon add a new prebuilt model to Microsoft Syntex, which can be used to analyze contracts and extract common entities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124814

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Microsoft Viva: Auto-Categorization Coming to Meeting Category Insights in Viva Insights

Meeting category insights in the Viva Insights app helps Viva Insights licensed users understand how they are allocating their time across meeting categories. Today, the feature uses the categories manually assigned by users in Outlook and Teams. In an upcoming update, meeting category insights will begin automatically categorizing meetings for users based on meeting size, cadence, and number of people in the meetings. Categories include:

  • Long meetings – More than 1 hour long and 0-8 invitees
  • Large meetings – At least 9 invitees and at most 1 hour long
  • Large and long meetings – At least 9 invitees and more than 1 hour long
  • Recurring meetings – Meeting series with multiple instances
  • 1:1 meetings – Include 1 other participant

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