INSIDER RISK MANAGEMENT —
POLICY GENERATOR.

Insider Risk Management (IRM) is a Microsoft Purview capability that detects anomalous user activity — data exfiltration, security policy violations, risky AI use, departing-user data theft — using signals from across Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Teams), the device (Defender for Endpoint), the browser (Microsoft Edge), and HR (departure dates, role changes). It runs continuously, scores users by risk, and surfaces cases to reviewers for investigation.

A tailored Purview Insider Risk Management policy starter pack: recommended Microsoft policy templates to enable (with priority), the risk indicators to wire up, severity thresholds sized to your headcount, alert routing, and a 6-8 week rollout sequence. Downloadable as a PDF and Excel workbook. Tailoring is based on your industry, size, top concern, regulatory drivers and current Purview tier.

Yes. Insider Risk Management is in Microsoft 365 E5 or the Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance add-on. It is not included in E3 or Business Premium. Below E5, this generator produces the policy starter pack you would deploy after the licensing uplift — the recommendations are still useful as a justification document for the E5 case.

The core named templates are: Data theft by departing users, Data leaks, Risky browser usage, Risky AI usage, Security policy violations, Patient data misuse (healthcare-specific), Forensic evidence (per-policy recording), Healthcare data misuse, and Forensic evidence. Microsoft adds 2–4 templates per year. The generator selects the templates most relevant to your inputs and ranks them by priority.

Not by default. The platform detects anomalous activity from metadata signals — file movement, sharing actions, security-control changes, browser activity — without capturing content. Forensic evidence (clip recording of desktop activity when a policy match occurs) is opt-in per policy and typically reserved for high-severity templates. Australian deployments must align with state employee-monitoring legislation; the rollout sequence in the generated report flags this explicitly.

The generator surfaces regulatory drivers (Privacy Act 2024-26, NDB, APRA CPS 234, SOCI, ISO 27001, Essential Eight) and adjusts the recommendation. APRA CPS 234 in particular drives the inclusion of Security policy violations template plus an explicit notifiable-cyber-incident pathway in alert routing. The generated PDF includes the AU regulatory context in the Notes section.

No. The generator is a defensible starter pack — a strong baseline for the deployment conversation. A verified deployment requires HR connector configuration, sensitivity-label backfill, integration with the customer's documented privacy and employee-monitoring policies, AU employment-law review, reviewer training, and case-management process design. Frontrow runs this as a 4–6 week engagement.

Daniel Brown (5x Microsoft MVP, Frontrow AI Lead), Graeme Lodge (Managing Director), and Sam Williams (Investor & Executive Consultant). The template recommendations and severity thresholds are based on Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management documentation and Frontrow Technology's deployment experience across Australian mid-market tenants.