Microsoft 365 Audit Aids Investigations, Compliance

• Knowing “who did what, when” is among the most important questions a compliance professional must answer.
• Microsoft 365 Audit logs enable administrators to track activities in Microsoft 365 and other cloud services for investigations and compliance.
• New features in Advanced Audit enable longer-running investigations and finer-tuned analyses of potentially damaging activities.
• Advanced Audit is only available with Microsoft 365 E5 or with add-on licenses.

Microsoft 365 Audit logs capture activity (in the form of events) across participating Microsoft 365 workloads as well as Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure Active Directory, Azure Defender (including Defender Endpoint Protection), and others. Audit supports use cases that range from simple inquiries about recent user or administrative activity to determining if a breach has occurred or supporting eDiscovery functions, and provides a wealth of searchable information to compliance and security professionals, although key features