Following recent security breaches where important information was only available to those customers paying for Office 365 E5, Microsoft have announced they are moving certain Microsoft Purview Audit features from the Premium tier into the Standard tier. Following urging from the ‘Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’ (CISA), updates will start from September 2023.
Purview audit availability
Purview Audit Premium is only available with E5 licenses while Purview Audit Standard is part of:
- Microsoft Business Basic/Standard subscriptions
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Business subscription
- Microsoft 365 Enterprise E3 subscription
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium
- Microsoft 365 Education A3 subscription
- Microsoft 365 Government G1/G3 subscriptions
- Microsoft 365 Frontline F1 or F3 subscription, or F5 Security add-on
- Office 365 Enterprise E1/E3 subscription
- Office 365 Education A1/A3 subscriptions
which covers a significantly wider portion of Microsoft’s customer base.
Customer with these licenses “will receive deeper visibility into security data, including detailed logs of email access and more than 30 other types of log data” and Microsoft are also doubling the default retention length from 90 to 180 days.
You can see the Microsoft announcement here.
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