What is Compliance Manager?
Compliance Manager in Microsoft Purview. A standard such as ISO/IEC 27001 says what to achieve, not how. Compliance Manager turns a regulation into an assessment, where each control points to improvement actions in Microsoft 365. Microsoft actions are implemented by Microsoft, your improvement actions are yours. The compliance score shows progress, weighted by risk: preventive mandatory actions give 27 points. Compliance score is not Secure Score.
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COMPLIANCE MANAGER
What is Compliance Manager?
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WHY COMPLIANCE MANAGER
Requirements you must meet, and prove
Laws and standards your organization must follow set requirements.
You have to meet them, and document that you do.
But which settings in Microsoft 365 does a requirement take?
Someone has to translate the requirement into configuration.
Compliance Manager breaks requirements down into improvement actions.
FROM REQUIREMENT TO ACTION
Take ISO/IEC 27001 as an example
THE STANDARD: ISO/IEC 27001:2022
CONTROLS IN COMPLIANCE MANAGER
IMPROVEMENT ACTIONS
One action can also support controls in other regulations. Related controls shows them all.
SHARED RESPONSIBILITY
Some improvement actions are done by Microsoft
Microsoft actions
Improvement actions Microsoft has
implemented and tested in its own cloud.
You can read the results, not change them.
Your improvement actions
Settings, documents and routines in
your organization. You implement them,
and someone verifies.
ISO 27001:2022, AN EXAMPLE TENANT
Microsoft actions
146 of 148
Your improvement actions
13 of 110
Microsoft completes its own actions. The 97 open improvement actions are yours.
WHAT IT'S USED FOR
Three standards, three laws
Microsoft Purview
Related solutions
Data Security Investigations
Data Lifecycle Management
Data Loss Prevention
Assessments
Free regulation licenses used
0/0
Purchased regulation licenses used
3/3
+ Add assessment
Export actions
Update actions
5 items
Assessment
Status
Progress
Your improvement actions
Microsoft actions
Regulation
Overview
Compliance Manager measures your progress in completing actions that help reduce risks around data protection
and regulatory standards.
Overall compliance score
Your compliance score:
60%
14070.84/23374 points achieved
Your points achieved
1,550.84/ 10,761
Microsoft managed points achieved
12,520/ 12,613
Rule of thumb: aim for at least 75%
Key improvement actions
Not completed
527
Completed
62
Out of scope
0
Improvement action
Impact
Test status
Action type
Improvement actions
Improvement actions provide guidance on task completion which can improve your org's compliance score.
Action points can take up to 24 hours to update.
Export actions
Update actions
Accept all updates
Assign to user
96 items
Regulations:
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
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Test Status:
Any
Testing type:
Any
Service:
Any
Improvement action
Points
Regulations
Assessments
Test status
54 = 27 points in each of 2 assessments
81 = 27 points × 3 assessments, not done
TWO WAYS TO WORK
One regulation, or all of them
PER REGULATION
Assessments
Open one assessment, for example GDPR.
You see its score, its controls and the
improvement actions for that regulation.
ACROSS ALL
Overview and Improvement actions
One overall score and one list of
improvement actions for every regulation
you have added. Filter when you need to.
Work on one regulation in its assessment. Follow up the whole picture in Overview.
HOW POINTS ARE SET
Risk decides the points
MANDATORY
DISCRETIONARY
Can't be bypassed
Depends on users following policy
An action that is part of several assessments counts in each of them.
Start with what gives the most points: preventive, mandatory actions.
COMPLIANCE SCORE OR SECURE SCORE?
Two scores, two questions
COMPLIANCE SCORE
SECURE SCORE
Some technical actions are tested automatically, with signals from Secure Score among others.
Good to know
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COMPLIANCE MANAGER
What is Compliance Manager?
What Compliance Manager is, how a requirement in
a standard becomes an action in Microsoft 365, what
it's used for, and what the compliance score
actually measures.
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