Compliance Center

Licenses

To get the new Microsoft 365 security center and Microsoft 365 compliance center, your organization must have a subscription to Microsoft 365 E3 or E5, or a Volume Licensing equivalent (which consists of Office 365 E3 or E5, Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 or E5, and Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5).

Welcome to Microsoft 365 compliance

When you go to your Microsoft 365 compliance center for the first time, you'll be greeted with the following welcome message:

The welcome banner gives you some pointers on how to get started, with next steps and an invitation for you to give us feedback.

The Assess section

The Assess section on the home page shows you at a glance how your organization is doing with respect to data protection and compliance.

From here, you can go to the Microsoft Compliance Score card, which leads you to Compliance Manager, where you can review or edit your configurations and potentially improve your overall compliance score.

You'll see additional cards, such as one showing your organization's cloud app compliance, and another showing data about users with shared files, with links to Cloud App Security or other tools where you can explore data.

The Protect section

The Protect section on the home page contains cards that provide you with high-level information about labels, data loss prevention (DLP), third-party apps in use, shared files, shadow IT apps, and so on.

Each card has a link to a report or additional information where you can learn more.

The Respond section

The Respond section on the home page surfaces alerts and pending dispositions that you'll want to review and potentially act upon.

Cards, such as the Active alerts card, include a link to a page where you can view more detailed information, such as Severity, Status, Category, and more.

Easy navigation to more compliance features and capabilities

In addition to links in cards on the home page, you'll find a navigation pane on the left side of the screen that gives you easy access to your alerts, reports, policies, compliance solutions, and more.

Go to Alerts to view and resolve alerts Visit Reports to view data about label usage and retention, DLP policy matches and overrides, shared files, third-party apps in use, and more. Expand the Classification section to access your labels, label policies, sensitive information types, and label analytics. Go to Policies to view alerts and to access your DLP and retentionpolicies. Use the links in the Solutions section to access your organization's compliance solutions. These include:  Data governance > Dispositions eDiscovery Supervision Data investigations Data subject re