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RM501582Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Collection policies impact on IRM

Summary

With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs - Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by Insider Risk Management policies Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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.

Description

With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs - Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by Insider Risk Management policies Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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.

GA date: September CY2025

Version history

2 versions tracked

Updated 1 time since Aug 27, 2025. Microsoft 365 Message Center only shows the current version; this archive preserves tracked history.

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  1. Sep 16, 2026 - 10:57 PMLatest - v2

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  2. Aug 27, 2025 - 11:15 PMOriginal - v1

    Changed: Initial version