SC-401 Leak Questions

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management flags high-impact users based on various risk factors, including role, access to confidential data, and influence within an organization. Let's analyze each user:

User1 (Regional Manager, assigned Reader role, manages department managers)

Risk Factors:

● Holds a managerial position (regional manager).

● Manages multiple department managers, indicating organizational influence.

● Access to critical business information.

Flagged? -Yes (Managerial role and access to confidential data).

User2 (HR department manager, no Microsoft Entra roles, manages HR department users)

Risk Factors:

● Manages HR department users, meaning they likely handle sensitive employee data.

● HR roles are often considered high-risk due to access to personal and payroll data.

Flagged? -Yes (HR role and access to sensitive employee data).

User3 (Developer, reports to User2, only user in compliance, assigned Compliance Administrator role)

Risk Factors:

● Compliance Administrator role grants access to sensitive security and regulatory data.

● Only person in the compliance department, meaning they hold a critical role.

● Potentially high impact on compliance and security settings.

Flagged? -Yes (Privileged Compliance Administrator role).

User4 (Assistant to User1, no Entra roles, handles confidential data on behalf of User1)

Risk Factors:

● Handles a high volume of confidential data on behalf of a regional manager.

● Assistants with access to sensitive data are considered insider risk candidates.

Flagged? -Yes (High access to sensitive information).

Since all four users fit high-impact criteria (managerial roles, privileged compliance access, handling sensitive data), Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will flag all of them.

To create custom trainable classifiers in Microsoft Purview, the user must have rights in the compliance portal. The Compliance Administrator role provides the necessary permissions to create and manage trainable classifiers. Security roles focus on threat management, and Global Administrator is excessive (not least privilege).

Step 1 – Scenario

The alert in the exhibit is named Alert2.

Current status = Resolved.

The task is to identify which statuses you can change the alert to.

Step 2 – Microsoft 365 Alert Lifecycle

In Microsoft 365 compliance and security alerts, an alert can move between multiple statuses depending on investigation and remediation. The available statuses are:

Active – The alert is new and not yet acted upon.

Investigating – The alert is under review.

Resolved – The alert has been addressed.

Dismissed – The alert is ignored or deemed not relevant.

Step 3 – Status changes from "Resolved"

If an alert is in the Resolved state, administrators can reopen or reclassify it. According to Microsoft documentation, from Resolved, you can change it to:

Active

Investigating

Dismissed

This allows flexibility in continuing investigations if needed or dismissing false positives.

Step 4 – Microsoft Reference

From Microsoft Docs: “You can change the status of an alert between Active, Investigating, Resolved, and Dismissed to reflect its current stage in the triage process.”

The requirement is that User1 must be able to analyze prompts and responses for AI interaction events in Microsoft Purview DSPM for AI, while following the principle of least privilege.

Information Protection Analysts role group:

Members can review and analyze sensitive data activity, including AI interaction events collected by Purview DSPM. This role is specifically intended for analysts monitoring sensitive information and is therefore necessary for User1.

Content Explorer List Viewer role group:

Members can see metadata about items with sensitive information, such as file names, locations, sensitivity labels, and policy matches, without accessing the actual file content. This provides the required visibility for AI-related data classification and interaction analysis while adhering to the least privilege principle.

Roles not required:

Content Explorer Content Viewer would give the ability to view the actual content of files, which is more access than needed.

Security Reader is intended for reviewing alerts and incidents but not for analyzing AI prompts and responses.

Insider Risk Management Investigators focus on insider risk investigations, not AI event analysis.