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Insider Risk Management correlates signals that may indicate accidental or intentional harm by people with legitimate access. Investigation must balance security, privacy, legal requirements, and need-to-know access.

Policies combine triggering events, risk indicators, user scope, time windows, and thresholds. Alerts represent risk-scored activity patterns, not proof of wrongdoing. Triage should test business context and corroborating evidence while preserving user privacy.

Control volume through user scope, indicators, thresholds, trigger conditions, time windows, exclusions, and policy health recommendations. Tune from observed false-positive patterns and missed-risk scenarios rather than simply suppressing high-volume sources.

Use the Alerts dashboard to prioritize by severity, risk score, policy, detected time, and status. Open the alert to inspect indicators, triggering events, user context, chronology, and content. Dismiss benign alerts or create a case when deeper investigation is warranted.

Copilot can summarize alerts, activity patterns, and risk factors; AI agents can accelerate repeatable analysis. Confirm all AI output against underlying records, follow organizational privacy rules, and keep a human accountable for case decisions.

The All risk factors tab aggregates contributing indicators and risk events so the analyst can understand why the score increased, compare activity categories, and identify the highest-value pivots. Separate a single unusual event from a sustained, multi-signal pattern.

Activity explorer shows event-level details with filters for date, activity type, application, device, domain, and other attributes. Use it to validate the exact operations behind an alert and identify files, destinations, volume, and sequences.

The User activity view places alerts, risk indicators, and events on a timeline. Look for changes from baseline, bursts before a departure event, movement across channels, and repeated actions that are individually low risk but collectively significant.

Pivot to Defender XDR when activity may connect to compromised identity, endpoint malware, cloud app misuse, or another security incident. Correlate the user, devices, alerts, files, network activity, and incident timeline before attributing intent.

Create a case for deeper review, assign contributors, add alerts and evidence, document notes, and coordinate permitted actions such as user notification, escalation, HR or legal referral, or security response. Resolve with an accurate classification and audit trail.

Use role groups and privacy settings to restrict access and pseudonymize user identity where organizational policy requires it.

Triage a potential data-theft alert, inspect risk factors and detailed activity, review the user timeline, correlate relevant context, create or update a case, and document a proportionate outcome.

Review policy triggers and indicators, alert scoring and thresholds, queue tuning, risk-factor and activity tabs, Copilot validation, Defender XDR pivots, privacy controls, and case actions.

Insider risk investigations require contextual evidence, careful attribution, privacy-aware access, cross-team governance, proportionate action, and policy tuning based on outcomes.