How to enable Alert Policies to monitor for unusual activities in SharePoint Online
When you store your company’s documents in SharePoint, a valid concern is data integrity. Is my data in SharePoint Secure? was one of the articles I wrote a whi
When you store your company’s documents in SharePoint, a valid concern is data integrity. Is my data in SharePoint Secure? was one of the articles I wrote a while back. It addressed the concern of whether or not the data stored in SharePoint and OneDrive is safe and secure. The data loss can occur in one of two scenarios: security compromise at Microsoft data centers or a human (employee) factor (by accident or intentional). Most likely, each organization, large or small, is concerned about data loss due to rogue employees or inadvertent mishandling of its files and folders due to user error.
SharePoint Alert Policies
Alert Policies are a feature of SharePoint Online that allow administrators to set up thresholds for specific events and receive notifications when unusual activities occur. Alerts can be configured to monitor changes in content, such as document updates or new pages; security-related activities, like user logins or access requests; and performance metrics, like page load times. Administrators can customize the alerts they receive by setting conditions on what types of activity should trigger an alert and how often those alerts should be sent out. This allows them to quickly identify issues with their SharePoint environment before they become more serious problems.
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Mar 10, 2022 — With the help of alert policies, you can monitor user activities and security incidents, such as phishing, unusual external user activities, ...
Feb 1, 2021 — When a user activity matches an alert policy's settings, an alert is generated and displayed inside the Security & Compliance Center. The first ...
Jul 27, 2017 — To create a new policy, click New alert policy and then enter the name of the policy, a free-form description, a category for the alert, which ...
Nov 22, 2018 — Login to Office 365 admin portal and browse to Security & Compliance Center. Expand Alerts and select Alert Policies. Manage Activity Alerts ...