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In today’s hybrid work environment, insider threats are becoming increasingly complex. Microsoft Purview’s Adaptive Protection and Insider Risk Management (IRM) offer a dynamic, risk-based approach to protecting sensitive data while enabling SOC teams to investigate and respond to alerts with precision.

This blog provides a step by step walkthrough of how SOC teams can leverage these tools to investigate alerts, assess user behavior, and take appropriate action.

Step 1: Understanding the Adaptive Protection Dashboard

The Adaptive Protection dashboard is the SOC team’s starting point. It provides a bird’s-eye view of user risk levels across the organization, helping analysts prioritize investigations.

Key Elements of the Dashboard:

• User Risk Levels:
  • Elevated Risk: Users exhibiting high-risk behavior that may indicate potential data exfiltration or policy violations.
  • Moderate Risk: Users with concerning patterns but not yet critical.
  • Minor Risk: Users with low level anomalies or early warning signs.

• Policy Integration:
  • Shows which Insider Risk policies are actively using these risk levels.
  • Helps correlate user behavior with policy triggers, such as data leakage,
  • Security violations, or unusual access patterns.