Security & Compliance reports

Chapter 14, Usage Reporting will talk about most common Office 365 reports, which are centered around driving user adoption and tracking activity. Reports in the Security & Compliance center focus on identifying threat activity and providing information on compliance-related features such as document labeling and DLP policies.

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Security & Compliance reports can now be bookmarked at https://protection.office.com/#/insightdashboard.

Reports dashboard

The top-line view of Security & Compliance | Reports offers a lot of information at a glance with very little depth. If you have yet to configure DLP or labels, the first two rows of tiles will be completely without any valuable information:

Excerpts from Security & Compliance | Reports | Dashboard

By default, the Dashboard only displays about 5 days' worth of data. This can make it exceedingly difficult to determine whether any apparent decline might just be a weekend phenomenon, as shown earlier...