{"id":168113,"date":"2023-07-22T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T07:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/microsoft-to-stop-locking-vital-security-logs-behind-57-per-user-monthly-plan"},"modified":"2023-07-22T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T07:22:27","slug":"microsoft-to-stop-locking-vital-security-logs-behind-57-per-user-monthly-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/microsoft-to-stop-locking-vital-security-logs-behind-57-per-user-monthly-plan","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-to-stop-locking-vital-security-logs-behind-57-per-user-monthly-plan2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft will expand access to important security log data after being criticized for locking detailed audit logs behind a Microsoft 365 enterprise plan that costs $57 per user per month. The logging updates will start rolling out \u201cin September 2023 to all government and commercial customers,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the coming months, we will include access to wider cloud security logs for our worldwide customers at no additional cost. As these changes take effect, customers can use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/business\/risk-management\/microsoft-purview-audit\">Microsoft Purview Audit<\/a> to centrally visualize more types of cloud log data generated across their enterprise,\u201d Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2023\/07\/19\/expanding-cloud-logging-to-give-customers-deeper-security-visibility\/\">announced yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Purview Audit Premium is available on the $57-per-user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/enterprise\/e5?activetab=pivot: overviewtab\">Microsoft 365 E5<\/a> plan for businesses as well as the similar A5 education plan and G5 government plan. There\u2019s also a Purview Audit Standard service that <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/compliance\/audit-solutions-overview?view=o365-worldwide#audit-standard\">comes with<\/a> a much wider range of plans, including the Microsoft 365 Business Basic tier that costs $6 per user per month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will expand access to important security log data after being criticized for locking detailed audit logs behind a Microsoft 365 enterprise plan that costs $57 per user per month. The logging updates will start rolling out \u201cin September 2023 to all government and commercial customers,\u201d the company said. \u201cOver the coming months, we will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32,1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}