Responding to a breach in Microsoft 365

Eli is phished. What to do first, and why the order matters.

Level 100 · Security and IT managers · A3, E3 or Business Premium. Entra ID P2 for Identity Protection

A customer asks about Eli's new bank details, and Eli never sent that invoice. We go through the order of a response: lock the attacker out, export the logs that expire first, find the way in with Microsoft Entra, see what happened inside with Purview, work out who and what was affected, and check which reporting duties apply. The logs run on different clocks, so the order matters.

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