New Blog | Leveraging insider risk visibility to strengthen your data security
Recent research reveals that insider risks are surging more each day. Over the past year, an alarming 63%[1] of data breaches were traced back to insiders, whether through inadvertent errors or malicious intent. These internal threats call for innovative solutions that can dynamically adapt to data security risks, instead of the widely available fragmented and one-size-fits-all solutions, where rigid controls can stymie legitimate business activities and lenient policies might leave the door open to data loss.
Striking the right balance between productivity and data security is critical, and that’s where the user visibility of Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, combined with the dynamic controls of Adaptive Protection, can help. These solutions enable organizations to tailor data protection strategies by integrating insider risk levels, determined by user activities, with different policy engines, allowing for automatic adjustments of policies as insider risk levels change.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals, such as unusual access patterns and data exfiltration, to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, including IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create data handling policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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.
The evolution of dynamic controls with Adaptive Protection within access management
This week we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of the integration between Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra Conditional Access. Organizations frequently struggle to implement effective data security and access management because they rely on fragmented and siloed solutions. These disjointed approaches hinder the consistent rollout of new security controls and can create exploitable gaps. Microsoft’s integration of Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access, however, offers a streamlined and integrated solution that seamlessly automates access controls for users based on their insider risk levels, thereby reducing the complexity of managing multiple disparate systems.
Consider a scenario where an employee at an organization is flagged as a potential insider risk; they are working on a sensitive project and they start to demonstrate risky activity detected in Insider Risk Management. With the integration of Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access, the organization can swiftly apply access policies to this employee if needed, and these policy controls can increase as the employee’s activities become riskier. The policy will then automatically ramp up controls and can restrict access to critical applications and systems without manual involvement of the data security admin, thus adding a protective layer against insider risks.
In Conditional Access, admins can now combine insights on insider and sign-in risks, to protect data against both external and internal threats with a comprehensive and multi-layered security strategy against unauthorized access, data leaks, and theft. With Conditional Access now being used to tackle both external and insider threats, your data remains secure, thereby bolstering your organization’s resilience against evolving cyber threats.
Figure 1: New ‘insider risk’ condition in Conditional Access
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By Nathalia Borges
Recent research reveals that insider risks are surging more each day. Over the past year, an alarming 63%[1] of data breaches were traced back to insiders, whether through inadvertent errors or malicious intent. These internal threats call for innovative solutions that can dynamically adapt to data security risks, instead of the widely available fragmented and one-size-fits-all solutions, where rigid controls can stymie legitimate business activities and lenient policies might leave the door open to data loss.
Striking the right balance between productivity and data security is critical, and that’s where the user visibility of Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, combined with the dynamic controls of Adaptive Protection, can help. These solutions enable organizations to tailor data protection strategies by integrating insider risk levels, determined by user activities, with different policy engines, allowing for automatic adjustments of policies as insider risk levels change.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals, such as unusual access patterns and data exfiltration, to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, including IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create data handling policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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.
The evolution of dynamic controls with Adaptive Protection within access management
This week we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of the integration between Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Entra Conditional Access. Organizations frequently struggle to implement effective data security and access management because they rely on fragmented and siloed solutions. These disjointed approaches hinder the consistent rollout of new security controls and can create exploitable gaps. Microsoft’s integration of Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access, however, offers a streamlined and integrated solution that seamlessly automates access controls for users based on their insider risk levels, thereby reducing the complexity of managing multiple disparate systems.
Consider a scenario where an employee at an organization is flagged as a potential insider risk; they are working on a sensitive project and they start to demonstrate risky activity detected in Insider Risk Management. With the integration of Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access, the organization can swiftly apply access policies to this employee if needed, and these policy controls can increase as the employee’s activities become riskier. The policy will then automatically ramp up controls and can restrict access to critical applications and systems without manual involvement of the data security admin, thus adding a protective layer against insider risks.
In Conditional Access, admins can now combine insights on insider and sign-in risks, to protect data against both external and internal threats with a comprehensive and multi-layered security strategy against unauthorized access, data leaks, and theft. With Conditional Access now being used to tackle both external and insider threats, your data remains secure, thereby bolstering your organization’s resilience against evolving cyber threats.
Figure 1: New ‘insider risk’ condition in Conditional Access
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