Microsoft Purview E5 Insider Risk Add-on Enablement

Enable Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management to detect, investigate and act on internal compliance and security risks

Our Microsoft Purview E5 Insider Risk Add-on Enablement service helps organisations configure and operationalise insider risk policies in Microsoft Purview, giving compliance and security teams the ability to identify potential internal threats, review alerts and manage risk workflows with clearly defined roles and privacy considerations.
We assess your current environment and licensing, design tailored insider risk policies, configure alert workflows, and deliver artefacts such as policy definitions and reporting runbooks to support ongoing monitoring and mitigation of insider risks within your organisation.

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Service Overview

Highlights

  • Assessment of existing Purview compliance posture and licensing
  • Design of insider risk policies and detection indicators
  • Configuration of workflows and reviewer assignments
  • Operational runbooks and reporting templates

Business Benefits

  • Enable detection and investigation of potential insider risks
  • Provide structured policies for risk thresholds and alerts
  • Support compliance and security teams with role assignments
  • Deliver practical artefacts to sustain ongoing risk management

Typical use cases

  • Organisations wanting proactive insider risk monitoring
  • Compliance teams managing internal investigations
  • Security operations seeking structured alerts and analytics
  • Teams requiring privacy-aware risk indicators and escalation

Objectives & deliverables

What Success Looks Like

  • Review current compliance and security configuration
  • Validate Insider Risk Management licensing prerequisites
  • Configure tailored risk detection policies
  • Provide documentation and runbooks to support risk workflows

What You Get

  • Insider Risk readiness report
  • Policy design for key risk scenarios
  • Risk indicator configuration artefacts
  • Operational runbooks with role and review assignments

How It Works

  1. Discovery of current compliance state and licensing
  2. Define insider risk policy templates and indicators
  3. Configure policies, alerts and workflows in Purview
  4. Validate and hand over artefacts with guidance

Engagement Options

  • Readiness Assessment and Licensing Review
  • Insider Risk Policy Workshop
  • Workflow Configuration and Reviewer Assignment
  • Operational Handover and Reporting Training

Additional Information

Prerequisites & licensing

To start a Purview Insider Risk add-on enablement engagement you should have admin access to your Microsoft 365 tenant, a baseline of current compliance configuration, and clarity on internal risk scenarios relevant to your organisation.
  • Global or Compliance administrator rights in Microsoft 365
  • Assigned Insider Risk Management licences or E5 add-on licences
  • Inventory of roles and teams that will manage or review incidents
  • Defined internal policies for risk treatment and escalation

Security & Compliance Notes

  • Configure role-based access controls so that only authorised reviewers and administrators can access sensitive risk alerts and investigation artefacts.
  • Ensure all risk policies respect user privacy by design and align to legal requirements such as data protection rules.

Common Bundles

Customers who use this service often bundle with these services

License-to-Capability Mapping (M365 Maps)
Map Microsoft licence features to practical capabilities and delivery services, turning purchased SKUs into a clear enablement backlog.

Security & Compliance Workshops
Interactive workshops covering security and compliance fundamentals, regulatory requirements, risk assessment techniques, and practical controls for consistent organisational understanding.

Frontline F1/F3 + F5 Security/Compliance Add-ons Enablement
Enable Frontline F5 Security and Compliance add-ons to extend protection and governance for Microsoft 365 F1 and F3 users.

Microsoft Purview E5 eDiscovery & Audit Add-on Enablement
Enable Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Premium and Audit Premium add-ons with configured policies, case processes, roles and operational runbooks.

Purview Compliance Enablement Workstream
Enable Microsoft Purview compliance capabilities across sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, eDiscovery, and auditing as part of structured E3 to E5 enablement.

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