Microsoft 365 A5 Insider Risk Management for faculty

Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management helps institutions detect, investigate, and remediate insider risks using privacy-by-design analytics. It correlates user activity, data access, and communication signals to surface actionable alerts while minimizing noisy false positives. Built-in playbooks and customizable policies help you identify risky behaviors such as data exfiltration, insider trading indicators, and security policy violations.

For education environments, it supports proactive monitoring when faculty or staff depart or change roles across compliance boundaries, strengthening data access governance and reducing exposure of sensitive research or student information. Deep integration with Microsoft Purview, Microsoft 365 apps, and Defender enhances end-to-end workflows—from alert triage to case management and remediation—while role-based access controls and pseudonymization protect user privacy and meet regulatory requirements.