Now do more with Advanced eDiscovery – custodian communications, working sets, and review

Today, we are excited to announce new capabilities in Advanced eDiscovery that directly respond to customer feedback on how they need to be able to do more with the built-in discovery tools in Microsoft 365. We have heard that organizations require expanded capabilities to complete more of common investigation and discovery workflows right within Microsoft 365.

Now we are starting to rollout a new version of Advanced eDiscovery that includes a new look and feel, additional functionality such as hold notifications and acknowledgment tracking, and a concept of a static set of content for performant searches as well as an integrated review and redact experience.

With these new updates we hope to more directly meet customer requirements for an efficient and effective way to preserve, collect and review content related to investigations or litigation.

Microsoft’s director of discovery, EJ Bastien has stated that even as “data from the average custodian has increased 20x over the last ten years, our team has reduced the cost per custodian of completing this eDiscovery work by 85%. While also maintaining high security standards of keeping data in place within the Microsoft cloud.” The capabilities integrated into Microsoft 365 have enabled Microsoft discovery to change the playing field on meeting legal and investigation requirements. 

Read on below for more on the new features and check out the Mechanics video where we show and tell a bit about how the capabilities work.

Manage custodians and notifications

Customers have told us they need to be able to manage custodians, or employees in their organization related to a particular case or investigation, from both the perspective of the content the custodian controls and manages in their email inbox and cloud storage, but also from the perspective of the shared locations that those employees interact with as part of their daily job such as team sites, groups, and channels. In addition to retention and discovery, we have also heard that organizations require a way to communicate to those custodians that are legal hold within their organization. Not only communicate with custodians, but track the fact that the custodians have been notified. Now you can manage complete that entire process right within your Advanced eDiscovery experience.

Search to add custodians and their custodial content locations, add sites and teams that they are members of from the shared locations picker, and place their content on hold for retention and discovery purposes. With the new custodial picker experience, you have a quick look up from Azure Active Directory in your organization to quickly find and identify individuals by name or organization identification alias.

Use templates to build out commonly used communications, escalate with reminders and or manager notifications. And the end user gets a clean experience showing them all of their active legal holds or other case related notifications.

Manage case content with consistency and performance using working sets

We have also heard that search and content processing needs to be higher performing, more predictable and transparent. Customers have told us that any variability in search results erodes confidence and ability to effectively complete the requirements of some eDiscovery processes. In addition, defensibility of the results is weakened, and it is just harder to get things done quickly and efficiently.

In order to help address this challenge and others, now you can isolate the set of results from a search and add it to a working set for further analysis, processing and refinement. Once this content is included in a working set you have a number of ways that you can interact with that content, all of which help you define and address the most responsive and relevant content in your case or investigation.

Customers are continuing to derive value form the advanced analytics capabilities already included in Advanced eDiscovery as the core vehicle to reduce and refine content. This reduction helps to drive down redundant, duplicative or highly related content and reduce the costs of eDiscovery.

Integrated review and redact experience

Now organizations can review and take action on the content within their case right within Microsoft 365. A new integrated review experience offers the ability to view a wide variety of file types, including jpgs, all office files, mp4s and more, and to take action on that content. Either tag and further refine content based on its responsiveness, or annotate, mark-up and redact content that might be sensitive and should not be shared with outside parties.

The new review experience includes a native, text and annotate view to provide options to support the various ways your team assess content. In addition, a customizable coding panel helps make sure that you are able to effectively tag and triage and organize the content under review. Further insights such as document history, other contributors to the document and views like difference detection in near duplicates will help speed the process to identify and curate the most responsive content.

Watch the short video and read more about this new review and redact experience here.

Data Investigations preview

Also today, we are announcing a new preview for a Data Investigations capability that helps IT and security operations search and take action on specific data in their organizations. Many organizations need to address scenarios like leaked confidential information, or investigating data breaches with this type of data remediation workflow. These scenarios are important as the risk to data security and privacy expectations continue to evolve. IT and privacy officers now have the tools to respond to any kinds of risk to personal, sensitive or business confidential information effectively and efficiently with this new solution.

The new capability, starting to roll out to preview today, includes the ability to execute targeted searches for specific content based on a variety of conditions, then investigate user activity around relevant content, and contain and ultimately remediate the leaked content at the source. Read more about the early look at this new capability here. 

Ready to get started?

Make sure you have Office 365 E5, Advanced Compliance, or Microsoft 365 Information Protection and Compliance to get started today with these new features.

Read more about Advanced eDiscovery in Microsoft 365, see our broader updates and webcast on privacy and compliance in the modern era of privacy expectations and engage with us in our Tech Community .

• Iram Arras, Sr Program Manager, Advanced eDiscovery Microsoft 365

Now do more with Advanced eDiscovery – custodian communications, working sets, and review

Today, we are excited to announce new capabilities in Advanced eDiscovery that directly respond to customer feedback on how they need to be able to do more with the built-in discovery tools in Microsoft 365. We have heard that organizations require expanded capabilities to complete more of common investigation and discovery workflows right within Microsoft 365.

Now we are starting to rollout a new version of Advanced eDiscovery that includes a new look and feel, additional functionality such as hold notifications and acknowledgment tracking, and a concept of a static set of content for performant searches as well as an integrated review and redact experience.

With these new updates we hope to more directly meet customer requirements for an efficient and effective way to preserve, collect and review content related to investigations or litigation.

Microsoft’s director of discovery, EJ Bastien has stated that even as “data from the average custodian has increased 20x over the last ten years, our team has reduced the cost per custodian of completing this eDiscovery work by 85%. While also maintaining high security standards of keeping data in place within the Microsoft cloud.” The capabilities integrated into Microsoft 365 have enabled Microsoft discovery to change the playing field on meeting legal and investigation requirements. 

Read on below for more on the new features and check out the Mechanics video where we show and tell a bit about how the capabilities work.

Manage custodians and notifications

Customers have told us they need to be able to manage custodians, or employees in their organization related to a particular case or investigation, from both the perspective of the content the custodian controls and manages in their email inbox and cloud storage, but also from the perspective of the shared locations that those employees interact with as part of their daily job such as team sites, groups, and channels. In addition to retention and discovery, we have also heard that organizations require a way to communicate to those custodians that are legal hold within their organization. Not only communicate with custodians, but track the fact that the custodians have been notified. Now you can manage complete that entire process right within your Advanced eDiscovery experience.

Search to add custodians and their custodial content locations, add sites and teams that they are members of from the shared locations picker, and place their content on hold for retention and discovery purposes. With the new custodial picker experience, you have a quick look up from Azure Active Directory in your organization to quickly find and identify individuals by name or organization identification alias.

Use templates to build out commonly used communications, escalate with reminders and or manager notifications. And the end user gets a clean experience showing them all of their active legal holds or other case related notifications.

Manage case content with consistency and performance using working sets

We have also heard that search and content processing needs to be higher performing, more predictable and transparent. Customers have told us that any variability in search results erodes confidence and ability to effectively complete the requirements of some eDiscovery processes. In addition, defensibility of the results is weakened, and it is just harder to get things done quickly and efficiently.

In order to help address this challenge and others, now you can isolate the set of results from a search and add it to a working set for further analysis, processing and refinement. Once this content is included in a working set you have a number of ways that you can interact with that content, all of which help you define and address the most responsive and relevant content in your case or investigation.

Customers are continuing to derive value form the advanced analytics capabilities already included in Advanced eDiscovery as the core vehicle to reduce and refine content. This reduction helps to drive down redundant, duplicative or highly related content and reduce the costs of eDiscovery.

Integrated review and redact experience

Now organizations can review and take action on the content within their case right within Microsoft 365. A new integrated review experience offers the ability to view a wide variety of file types, including jpgs, all office files, mp4s and more, and to take action on that content. Either tag and further refine content based on its responsiveness, or annotate, mark-up and redact content that might be sensitive and should not be shared with outside parties.

The new review experience includes a native, text and annotate view to provide options to support the various ways your team assess content. In addition, a customizable coding panel helps make sure that you are able to effectively tag and triage and organize the content under review. Further insights such as document history, other contributors to the document and views like difference detection in near duplicates will help speed the process to identify and curate the most responsive content.

Watch the short video and read more about this new review and redact experience here.

Data Investigations preview

Also today, we are announcing a new preview for a Data Investigations capability that helps IT and security operations search and take action on specific data in their organizations. Many organizations need to address scenarios like leaked confidential information, or investigating data breaches with this type of data remediation workflow. These scenarios are important as the risk to data security and privacy expectations continue to evolve. IT and privacy officers now have the tools to respond to any kinds of risk to personal, sensitive or business confidential information effectively and efficiently with this new solution.

The new capability, starting to roll out to preview today, includes the ability to execute targeted searches for specific content based on a variety of conditions, then investigate user activity around relevant content, and contain and ultimately remediate the leaked content at the source. Read more about the early look at this new capability here. 

Ready to get started?

Make sure you have Office 365 E5, Advanced Compliance, or Microsoft 365 Information Protection and Compliance to get started today with these new features.

Read more about Advanced eDiscovery in Microsoft 365, see our broader updates and webcast on privacy and compliance in the modern era of privacy expectations and engage with us in our Tech Community .

• Iram Arras, Sr Program Manager, Advanced eDiscovery Microsoft 365

Now do more with Advanced eDiscovery – custodian communications, working sets, and review

Today, we are excited to announce new capabilities in Advanced eDiscovery that directly respond to customer feedback on how they need to be able to do more with the built-in discovery tools in Microsoft 365. We have heard that organizations require expanded capabilities to complete more of common investigation and discovery workflows right within Microsoft 365.

Now we are starting to rollout a new version of Advanced eDiscovery that includes a new look and feel, additional functionality such as hold notifications and acknowledgment tracking, and a concept of a static set of content for performant searches as well as an integrated review and redact experience.

With these new updates we hope to more directly meet customer requirements for an efficient and effective way to preserve, collect and review content related to investigations or litigation.

Microsoft’s director of discovery, EJ Bastien has stated that even as “data from the average custodian has increased 20x over the last ten years, our team has reduced the cost per custodian of completing this eDiscovery work by 85%. While also maintaining high security standards of keeping data in place within the Microsoft cloud.” The capabilities integrated into Microsoft 365 have enabled Microsoft discovery to change the playing field on meeting legal and investigation requirements. 

Read on below for more on the new features and check out the Mechanics video where we show and tell a bit about how the capabilities work.

Manage custodians and notifications

Customers have told us they need to be able to manage custodians, or employees in their organization related to a particular case or investigation, from both the perspective of the content the custodian controls and manages in their email inbox and cloud storage, but also from the perspective of the shared locations that those employees interact with as part of their daily job such as team sites, groups, and channels. In addition to retention and discovery, we have also heard that organizations require a way to communicate to those custodians that are legal hold within their organization. Not only communicate with custodians, but track the fact that the custodians have been notified. Now you can manage complete that entire process right within your Advanced eDiscovery experience.

Search to add custodians and their custodial content locations, add sites and teams that they are members of from the shared locations picker, and place their content on hold for retention and discovery purposes. With the new custodial picker experience, you have a quick look up from Azure Active Directory in your organization to quickly find and identify individuals by name or organization identification alias.

Use templates to build out commonly used communications, escalate with reminders and or manager notifications. And the end user gets a clean experience showing them all of their active legal holds or other case related notifications.

Manage case content with consistency and performance using working sets

We have also heard that search and content processing needs to be higher performing, more predictable and transparent. Customers have told us that any variability in search results erodes confidence and ability to effectively complete the requirements of some eDiscovery processes. In addition, defensibility of the results is weakened, and it is just harder to get things done quickly and efficiently.

In order to help address this challenge and others, now you can isolate the set of results from a search and add it to a working set for further analysis, processing and refinement. Once this content is included in a working set you have a number of ways that you can interact with that content, all of which help you define and address the most responsive and relevant content in your case or investigation.

Customers are continuing to derive value form the advanced analytics capabilities already included in Advanced eDiscovery as the core vehicle to reduce and refine content. This reduction helps to drive down redundant, duplicative or highly related content and reduce the costs of eDiscovery.

Integrated review and redact experience

Now organizations can review and take action on the content within their case right within Microsoft 365. A new integrated review experience offers the ability to view a wide variety of file types, including jpgs, all office files, mp4s and more, and to take action on that content. Either tag and further refine content based on its responsiveness, or annotate, mark-up and redact content that might be sensitive and should not be shared with outside parties.

The new review experience includes a native, text and annotate view to provide options to support the various ways your team assess content. In addition, a customizable coding panel helps make sure that you are able to effectively tag and triage and organize the content under review. Further insights such as document history, other contributors to the document and views like difference detection in near duplicates will help speed the process to identify and curate the most responsive content.

Watch the short video and read more about this new review and redact experience here.

Data Investigations preview

Also today, we are announcing a new preview for a Data Investigations capability that helps IT and security operations search and take action on specific data in their organizations. Many organizations need to address scenarios like leaked confidential information, or investigating data breaches with this type of data remediation workflow. These scenarios are important as the risk to data security and privacy expectations continue to evolve. IT and privacy officers now have the tools to respond to any kinds of risk to personal, sensitive or business confidential information effectively and efficiently with this new solution.

The new capability, starting to roll out to preview today, includes the ability to execute targeted searches for specific content based on a variety of conditions, then investigate user activity around relevant content, and contain and ultimately remediate the leaked content at the source. Read more about the early look at this new capability here. 

Ready to get started?

Make sure you have Office 365 E5, Advanced Compliance, or Microsoft 365 Information Protection and Compliance to get started today with these new features.

Read more about Advanced eDiscovery in Microsoft 365, see our broader updates and webcast on privacy and compliance in the modern era of privacy expectations and engage with us in our Tech Community .

• Iram Arras, Sr Program Manager, Advanced eDiscovery Microsoft 365

Now do more with Advanced eDiscovery – custodian communications, working sets, and review

Today, we are excited to announce new capabilities in Advanced eDiscovery that directly respond to customer feedback on how they need to be able to do more with the built-in discovery tools in Microsoft 365. We have heard that organizations require expanded capabilities to complete more of common investigation and discovery workflows right within Microsoft 365.

Now we are starting to rollout a new version of Advanced eDiscovery that includes a new look and feel, additional functionality such as hold notifications and acknowledgment tracking, and a concept of a static set of content for performant searches as well as an integrated review and redact experience.

With these new updates we hope to more directly meet customer requirements for an efficient and effective way to preserve, collect and review content related to investigations or litigation.

Microsoft’s director of discovery, EJ Bastien has stated that even as “data from the average custodian has increased 20x over the last ten years, our team has reduced the cost per custodian of completing this eDiscovery work by 85%. While also maintaining high security standards of keeping data in place within the Microsoft cloud.” The capabilities integrated into Microsoft 365 have enabled Microsoft discovery to change the playing field on meeting legal and investigation requirements. 

Read on below for more on the new features and check out the Mechanics video where we show and tell a bit about how the capabilities work.

Manage custodians and notifications

Customers have told us they need to be able to manage custodians, or employees in their organization related to a particular case or investigation, from both the perspective of the content the custodian controls and manages in their email inbox and cloud storage, but also from the perspective of the shared locations that those employees interact with as part of their daily job such as team sites, groups, and channels. In addition to retention and discovery, we have also heard that organizations require a way to communicate to those custodians that are legal hold within their organization. Not only communicate with custodians, but track the fact that the custodians have been notified. Now you can manage complete that entire process right within your Advanced eDiscovery experience.

Search to add custodians and their custodial content locations, add sites and teams that they are members of from the shared locations picker, and place their content on hold for retention and discovery purposes. With the new custodial picker experience, you have a quick look up from Azure Active Directory in your organization to quickly find and identify individuals by name or organization identification alias.

Use templates to build out commonly used communications, escalate with reminders and or manager notifications. And the end user gets a clean experience showing them all of their active legal holds or other case related notifications.

Manage case content with consistency and performance using working sets

We have also heard that search and content processing needs to be higher performing, more predictable and transparent. Customers have told us that any variability in search results erodes confidence and ability to effectively complete the requirements of some eDiscovery processes. In addition, defensibility of the results is weakened, and it is just harder to get things done quickly and efficiently.

In order to help address this challenge and others, now you can isolate the set of results from a search and add it to a working set for further analysis, processing and refinement. Once this content is included in a working set you have a number of ways that you can interact with that content, all of which help you define and address the most responsive and relevant content in your case or investigation.

Customers are continuing to derive value form the advanced analytics capabilities already included in Advanced eDiscovery as the core vehicle to reduce and refine content. This reduction helps to drive down redundant, duplicative or highly related content and reduce the costs of eDiscovery.

Integrated review and redact experience

Now organizations can review and take action on the content within their case right within Microsoft 365. A new integrated review experience offers the ability to view a wide variety of file types, including jpgs, all office files, mp4s and more, and to take action on that content. Either tag and further refine content based on its responsiveness, or annotate, mark-up and redact content that might be sensitive and should not be shared with outside parties.

The new review experience includes a native, text and annotate view to provide options to support the various ways your team assess content. In addition, a customizable coding panel helps make sure that you are able to effectively tag and triage and organize the content under review. Further insights such as document history, other contributors to the document and views like difference detection in near duplicates will help speed the process to identify and curate the most responsive content.

Watch the short video and read more about this new review and redact experience here.

Data Investigations preview

Also today, we are announcing a new preview for a Data Investigations capability that helps IT and security operations search and take action on specific data in their organizations. Many organizations need to address scenarios like leaked confidential information, or investigating data breaches with this type of data remediation workflow. These scenarios are important as the risk to data security and privacy expectations continue to evolve. IT and privacy officers now have the tools to respond to any kinds of risk to personal, sensitive or business confidential information effectively and efficiently with this new solution.

The new capability, starting to roll out to preview today, includes the ability to execute targeted searches for specific content based on a variety of conditions, then investigate user activity around relevant content, and contain and ultimately remediate the leaked content at the source. Read more about the early look at this new capability here. 

Ready to get started?

Make sure you have Office 365 E5, Advanced Compliance, or Microsoft 365 Information Protection and Compliance to get started today with these new features.

Read more about Advanced eDiscovery in Microsoft 365, see our broader updates and webcast on privacy and compliance in the modern era of privacy expectations and engage with us in our Tech Community .

• Iram Arras, Sr Program Manager, Advanced eDiscovery Microsoft 365

Introducing new code-free options to connect with Microsoft Graph Security!

We are happy to announce Microsoft Graph Security connectors for Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Flow, and PowerApps, which greatly simplify the development of automated security workflows. By building playbooks that use the Microsoft Graph Security connector, you can automate common security tasks across multiple security solutions. This reduces the time and resources required to triage, investigate, and remediate security alerts, without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining multiple integrations. For further details on integrating with the Microsoft Graph Security API, learn about the API and access the schema.

Getting Started

Use these connectors now in your existing workflows or create new workflows. The steps are similar for Azure Logic Apps, Flow, and PowerApps. We’ll use Azure Logic Apps as an example here. Refer to the documentation and connector reference for further details.

1. Your Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant administrator must first grant consent for the connector; follow the steps in the connector documentation.
2. Sign in to the Azure portal, and open a new or an existing Logic App in Logic App Designer.
3. For a blank Logic App, first start with a trigger, such as the Recurrence trigger. For existing Logic Apps, add an action to the end of a workflow by clicking ‘+ Next Step’ or between steps by clicking the (+) sign and selecting ‘Add an action’.
4. Search for “Microsoft graph security” and select an action from the list.
5. Provide the necessary details for your selected action and continue building your Logic App workflow.

Supported Actions

The Microsoft Graph Security connectors enable the following actions:

1. Get alerts – Use this action to get a list of alerts filtered on one or more alert properties. For example, get a list of alerts with Provider equals Azure Security Center or Palo Alto Networks.
2. Get alert by ID – Use this action to get a specific alert by alert id property.
3. Update alert – Update a specific alert by specifying the alert id property. Refer to the list of the editable properties of alerts to ensure required and editable properties are passed in your request. For example, you can update alert assigned to property to assign the alert to a security analyst for investigations.
4. Create subscriptions – Use this action to create a Graph webhook subscription that notifies you of any changes, filtered to certain types of alerts you are interested in. For example, you can create a subscription that notifies you of high severity alerts.
5. Get active subscriptions – Use this action to get a list of unexpired subscriptions to manage the list of subscriptions
6. Update subscription – Update your subscription by specifying the subscription id. For example, you can update the expirationDateTime property of the subscription to extend the subscription.
7. Delete subscription – Delete your subscription by specifying the subscription id.

User Scenarios

You can mash up the Microsoft Graph Security connector with the 200+ Microsoft and non-Microsoft connectors available for Azure Logic Apps, Flow and PowerApps to build end-to-end scenarios based on your requirements. We have provided a few examples of scenarios that can be enabled using the Microsoft Graph Security and other connectors.

Automating Security Monitoring and Management

It’s always been a challenge to get notified of critical alerts that needs immediate action in an automated manner. At the same time, not all alerts are of equal priority and needs to be handled differently for optimal security management. You can now use the Microsoft Graph Security connector to get your high severity alerts across various security products like Azure Security Center, Windows Defender ATP, Palo Alto Networks, etc. and route those for immediate action. This example workflow below segregates alerts based on severity and routes high severity alerts for investigations.

• This workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger set for polling every 15 minutes. Two workflows kick off in parallel.
• Refer to the left branch.
  • Get new alerts every 15 minutes using the Microsoft Graph Security connector.
  • Push these to the event hub using the Event Hub connector.
• Refer to the right branch.
  • Get new high severity alerts every 15 minutes using the Graph Security connector.
  • Get the list of on-call security analysts using the SharePoint connector.
  • Update the alert to assign it to the first analyst using the Graph Security connector. Add comments to the alert as well.
  • Create a record for tracking this alert investigation using ServiceNow connector.
  • Format and send an email to the analyst on point for investigations using the Outlook connector. At the same time, notify the analyst via SMS using Twilio connector.

Diagram 1 – Automate Security Monitoring and Management

Automating Security Response Handling

To reduce the workload of security analysts, alerts about suspicious user actions, such as logging in from unusual locations or atypical data access, can be investigated further and in some cases automatically resolved with input from the user in question. An example workflow for this using the Microsoft Graph Security Connector is as follows.

• The workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger like the previous examples.
• For each new alert, check for a user principal name. If present, use the Outlook connector to email the user asking them to provide feedback about the alert, such as IgnoreThisAlert if the activity was legitimate or I’mUnsure if it’s not known.
• If the user responds as I’mUnsure, further investigation of the alert is needed; initiate a Teams channel with the security analysts for further investigations using the Microsoft Teams connector. This can be supplemented by SMS, etc. as well as covered in the earlier example.
• If the user responds as IgnoreThisAlert, update the alert status to closed using the Microsoft Graph Security connector and add comments to track resolution based on user input.

Diagram 2 – Automate Security Response Handling

Automating Security Investigations

The often-manual process of correlating related alerts during an investigation can be automated using the Microsoft Graph Security connector. In this example workflow, all recent alerts for the host IP being investigated are automatically collected. This same example can be leveraged to find alerts for a specific file, user, or process user under investigation or other alert properties.

• The workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger like the previous examples.
• For each high severity alert, check for a host private IP address. If available, compare the address with that of all alerts generated in the past 2 hours using the Microsoft Graph Security connector.
• Email a list of related alerts to the security analyst team for investigation using the Outlook connector.

Diagram 3 – Automate Security Investigations

What’s Next?

We are working on templates for the Microsoft Graph Security connector to simplify the process of building your security playbooks. Fill out the feedback form to help us design templates for the workflows you need most.

Try the Microsoft Graph Security connector and please share your feedback by filing a GitHub issue or by engaging on the Microsoft Security Graph API tech community or StackOverflow.

Introducing new code-free options to connect with Microsoft Graph Security!

We are happy to announce Microsoft Graph Security connectors for Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Flow, and PowerApps, which greatly simplify the development of automated security workflows. By building playbooks that use the Microsoft Graph Security connector, you can automate common security tasks across multiple security solutions. This reduces the time and resources required to triage, investigate, and remediate security alerts, without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining multiple integrations. For further details on integrating with the Microsoft Graph Security API, learn about the API and access the schema.

Getting Started

Use these connectors now in your existing workflows or create new workflows. The steps are similar for Azure Logic Apps, Flow, and PowerApps. We’ll use Azure Logic Apps as an example here. Refer to the documentation and connector reference for further details.

1. Your Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant administrator must first grant consent for the connector; follow the steps in the connector documentation.
2. Sign in to the Azure portal, and open a new or an existing Logic App in Logic App Designer.
3. For a blank Logic App, first start with a trigger, such as the Recurrence trigger. For existing Logic Apps, add an action to the end of a workflow by clicking ‘+ Next Step’ or between steps by clicking the (+) sign and selecting ‘Add an action’.
4. Search for “Microsoft graph security” and select an action from the list.
5. Provide the necessary details for your selected action and continue building your Logic App workflow.

Supported Actions

The Microsoft Graph Security connectors enable the following actions:

1. Get alerts – Use this action to get a list of alerts filtered on one or more alert properties. For example, get a list of alerts with Provider equals Azure Security Center or Palo Alto Networks.
2. Get alert by ID – Use this action to get a specific alert by alert id property.
3. Update alert – Update a specific alert by specifying the alert id property. Refer to the list of the editable properties of alerts to ensure required and editable properties are passed in your request. For example, you can update alert assigned to property to assign the alert to a security analyst for investigations.
4. Create subscriptions – Use this action to create a Graph webhook subscription that notifies you of any changes, filtered to certain types of alerts you are interested in. For example, you can create a subscription that notifies you of high severity alerts.
5. Get active subscriptions – Use this action to get a list of unexpired subscriptions to manage the list of subscriptions
6. Update subscription – Update your subscription by specifying the subscription id. For example, you can update the expirationDateTime property of the subscription to extend the subscription.
7. Delete subscription – Delete your subscription by specifying the subscription id.

User Scenarios

You can mash up the Microsoft Graph Security connector with the 200+ Microsoft and non-Microsoft connectors available for Azure Logic Apps, Flow and PowerApps to build end-to-end scenarios based on your requirements. We have provided a few examples of scenarios that can be enabled using the Microsoft Graph Security and other connectors.

Automating Security Monitoring and Management

It’s always been a challenge to get notified of critical alerts that needs immediate action in an automated manner. At the same time, not all alerts are of equal priority and needs to be handled differently for optimal security management. You can now use the Microsoft Graph Security connector to get your high severity alerts across various security products like Azure Security Center, Windows Defender ATP, Palo Alto Networks, etc. and route those for immediate action. This example workflow below segregates alerts based on severity and routes high severity alerts for investigations.

• This workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger set for polling every 15 minutes. Two workflows kick off in parallel.
• Refer to the left branch.
  • Get new alerts every 15 minutes using the Microsoft Graph Security connector.
  • Push these to the event hub using the Event Hub connector.
• Refer to the right branch.
  • Get new high severity alerts every 15 minutes using the Graph Security connector.
  • Get the list of on-call security analysts using the SharePoint connector.
  • Update the alert to assign it to the first analyst using the Graph Security connector. Add comments to the alert as well.
  • Create a record for tracking this alert investigation using ServiceNow connector.
  • Format and send an email to the analyst on point for investigations using the Outlook connector. At the same time, notify the analyst via SMS using Twilio connector.

Diagram 1 – Automate Security Monitoring and Management

Automating Security Response Handling

To reduce the workload of security analysts, alerts about suspicious user actions, such as logging in from unusual locations or atypical data access, can be investigated further and in some cases automatically resolved with input from the user in question. An example workflow for this using the Microsoft Graph Security Connector is as follows.

• The workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger like the previous examples.
• For each new alert, check for a user principal name. If present, use the Outlook connector to email the user asking them to provide feedback about the alert, such as IgnoreThisAlert if the activity was legitimate or I’mUnsure if it’s not known.
• If the user responds as I’mUnsure, further investigation of the alert is needed; initiate a Teams channel with the security analysts for further investigations using the Microsoft Teams connector. This can be supplemented by SMS, etc. as well as covered in the earlier example.
• If the user responds as IgnoreThisAlert, update the alert status to closed using the Microsoft Graph Security connector and add comments to track resolution based on user input.

Diagram 2 – Automate Security Response Handling

Automating Security Investigations

The often-manual process of correlating related alerts during an investigation can be automated using the Microsoft Graph Security connector. In this example workflow, all recent alerts for the host IP being investigated are automatically collected. This same example can be leveraged to find alerts for a specific file, user, or process user under investigation or other alert properties.

• The workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger like the previous examples.
• For each high severity alert, check for a host private IP address. If available, compare the address with that of all alerts generated in the past 2 hours using the Microsoft Graph Security connector.
• Email a list of related alerts to the security analyst team for investigation using the Outlook connector.

Diagram 3 – Automate Security Investigations

What’s Next?

We are working on templates for the Microsoft Graph Security connector to simplify the process of building your security playbooks. Fill out the feedback form to help us design templates for the workflows you need most.

Try the Microsoft Graph Security connector and please share your feedback by filing a GitHub issue or by engaging on the Microsoft Security Graph API tech community or StackOverflow.

Introducing new code-free options to connect with Microsoft Graph Security!

We are happy to announce Microsoft Graph Security connectors for Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft Flow, and PowerApps, which greatly simplify the development of automated security workflows. By building playbooks that use the Microsoft Graph Security connector, you can automate common security tasks across multiple security solutions. This reduces the time and resources required to triage, investigate, and remediate security alerts, without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining multiple integrations. For further details on integrating with the Microsoft Graph Security API, learn about the API and access the schema.

Getting Started

Use these connectors now in your existing workflows or create new workflows. The steps are similar for Azure Logic Apps, Flow, and PowerApps. We’ll use Azure Logic Apps as an example here. Refer to the documentation and connector reference for further details.

1. Your Azure Active Directory (AD) tenant administrator must first grant consent for the connector; follow the steps in the connector documentation.
2. Sign in to the Azure portal, and open a new or an existing Logic App in Logic App Designer.
3. For a blank Logic App, first start with a trigger, such as the Recurrence trigger. For existing Logic Apps, add an action to the end of a workflow by clicking ‘+ Next Step’ or between steps by clicking the (+) sign and selecting ‘Add an action’.
4. Search for “Microsoft graph security” and select an action from the list.
5. Provide the necessary details for your selected action and continue building your Logic App workflow.

Supported Actions

The Microsoft Graph Security connectors enable the following actions:

1. Get alerts – Use this action to get a list of alerts filtered on one or more alert properties. For example, get a list of alerts with Provider equals Azure Security Center or Palo Alto Networks.
2. Get alert by ID – Use this action to get a specific alert by alert id property.
3. Update alert – Update a specific alert by specifying the alert id property. Refer to the list of the editable properties of alerts to ensure required and editable properties are passed in your request. For example, you can update alert assigned to property to assign the alert to a security analyst for investigations.
4. Create subscriptions – Use this action to create a Graph webhook subscription that notifies you of any changes, filtered to certain types of alerts you are interested in. For example, you can create a subscription that notifies you of high severity alerts.
5. Get active subscriptions – Use this action to get a list of unexpired subscriptions to manage the list of subscriptions
6. Update subscription – Update your subscription by specifying the subscription id. For example, you can update the expirationDateTime property of the subscription to extend the subscription.
7. Delete subscription – Delete your subscription by specifying the subscription id.

User Scenarios

You can mash up the Microsoft Graph Security connector with the 200+ Microsoft and non-Microsoft connectors available for Azure Logic Apps, Flow and PowerApps to build end-to-end scenarios based on your requirements. We have provided a few examples of scenarios that can be enabled using the Microsoft Graph Security and other connectors.

Automating Security Monitoring and Management

It’s always been a challenge to get notified of critical alerts that needs immediate action in an automated manner. At the same time, not all alerts are of equal priority and needs to be handled differently for optimal security management. You can now use the Microsoft Graph Security connector to get your high severity alerts across various security products like Azure Security Center, Windows Defender ATP, Palo Alto Networks, etc. and route those for immediate action. This example workflow below segregates alerts based on severity and routes high severity alerts for investigations.

• This workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger set for polling every 15 minutes. Two workflows kick off in parallel.
• Refer to the left branch.
  • Get new alerts every 15 minutes using the Microsoft Graph Security connector.
  • Push these to the event hub using the Event Hub connector.
• Refer to the right branch.
  • Get new high severity alerts every 15 minutes using the Graph Security connector.
  • Get the list of on-call security analysts using the SharePoint connector.
  • Update the alert to assign it to the first analyst using the Graph Security connector. Add comments to the alert as well.
  • Create a record for tracking this alert investigation using ServiceNow connector.
  • Format and send an email to the analyst on point for investigations using the Outlook connector. At the same time, notify the analyst via SMS using Twilio connector.

Diagram 1 – Automate Security Monitoring and Management

Automating Security Response Handling

To reduce the workload of security analysts, alerts about suspicious user actions, such as logging in from unusual locations or atypical data access, can be investigated further and in some cases automatically resolved with input from the user in question. An example workflow for this using the Microsoft Graph Security Connector is as follows.

• The workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger like the previous examples.
• For each new alert, check for a user principal name. If present, use the Outlook connector to email the user asking them to provide feedback about the alert, such as IgnoreThisAlert if the activity was legitimate or I’mUnsure if it’s not known.
• If the user responds as I’mUnsure, further investigation of the alert is needed; initiate a Teams channel with the security analysts for further investigations using the Microsoft Teams connector. This can be supplemented by SMS, etc. as well as covered in the earlier example.
• If the user responds as IgnoreThisAlert, update the alert status to closed using the Microsoft Graph Security connector and add comments to track resolution based on user input.

Diagram 2 – Automate Security Response Handling

Automating Security Investigations

The often-manual process of correlating related alerts during an investigation can be automated using the Microsoft Graph Security connector. In this example workflow, all recent alerts for the host IP being investigated are automatically collected. This same example can be leveraged to find alerts for a specific file, user, or process user under investigation or other alert properties.

• The workflow starts with a Recurrence trigger like the previous examples.
• For each high severity alert, check for a host private IP address. If available, compare the address with that of all alerts generated in the past 2 hours using the Microsoft Graph Security connector.
• Email a list of related alerts to the security analyst team for investigation using the Outlook connector.

Diagram 3 – Automate Security Investigations

What’s Next?

We are working on templates for the Microsoft Graph Security connector to simplify the process of building your security playbooks. Fill out the feedback form to help us design templates for the workflows you need most.

Try the Microsoft Graph Security connector and please share your feedback by filing a GitHub issue or by engaging on the Microsoft Security Graph API tech community or StackOverflow.