In today’s digital age, the safety of sensitive information remains a paramount concern for businesses across the globe. However, implementing and running an insider risk management program often brings a unique set of challenges that can overwhelm even seasoned IT professionals and business executives. ShadowSight, a Microsoft 365 security intelligence platform, was built to address these challenges.
Streamlining Alert Management
One of the most common hurdles organisations face is an overwhelming number of alerts, many of them false positives. This strains resources and diverts attention from genuine threats. ShadowSight addresses this head-on: every alert is validated by analysts before it reaches you, so your team sees the activity that genuinely needs attention rather than the raw noise.
Customisation Without Complexity
Many businesses find they need constant professional services to tune and manage an insider risk platform. With ShadowSight, the way the platform is run is your choice: it can be managed by ShadowSight’s analysts, by your own team, or by a mix of both. You don’t have to build a specialist team before you can get value from it.
Empowering Internal Resources
A lack of internal resources to review alerts can leave organisations exposed. Because alerts are validated before they reach you, and ShadowSight’s analysts can carry as much of that load as you want them to (including 24/7 validation where a client needs it), your internal people can focus on acting on what matters instead of getting bogged down in alert triage.
Integrating Alerts into Business Processes
An alert is only useful if someone can act on it. A validated alert arrives with the context the analyst found, so the people responsible can quickly understand what happened and decide on a proportionate response through your organisation’s own processes.
Adapting to Business Risk and Change
In a constantly evolving business landscape, the ability to adapt to change and emerging risks is crucial. New ways of moving data appear all the time, from personal email to AI tools. ShadowSight Data Leakage Prevention adds a behavioural detection layer on top of Microsoft 365 activity, so it can catch insider data loss that looks like ordinary, legitimate work and that native Microsoft 365 DLP rules miss.
Scaling Across the Enterprise
Large or small, an organisation shouldn’t need a deployment project to get started. ShadowSight connects through one read-only Microsoft 365 admin consent, with no endpoint agents to install on staff devices (only a lightweight collector if you include Windows file shares). The size of the organisation doesn’t have to slow down effective insider risk management.
Beyond Malicious Activity
The vast majority of risky behaviour is not malicious; it comes from a lack of awareness or the pressure to get the job done. Much of it is systemic: sensitive data stored where too many people can reach it, or labelled wrongly. ShadowSight Data Risk discovers and classifies sensitive data across SharePoint (including Teams files), OneDrive, Exchange email and Windows file servers, shows who can reach it and where Microsoft Purview labels don’t match what’s stored, and recommends whether to delete, archive, migrate or remediate, with evidence. Fixing those systemic issues removes risk at the source and lifts security culture at the same time.
Rapid Implementation and Proof of Value
Because there are no endpoint agents and setup is a single read-only consent, getting started is quick. Rather than asking you to take our word for it, a Proof of Value runs on your own Microsoft 365 tenant, so you can see what ShadowSight finds in your environment before committing.
Meeting Regulatory Requirements
Regulators and auditors want to see that you know where your sensitive data is and that you manage the risk to it. ShadowSight Data Governance shows where sensitive data lives, who can reach it and what should be done about it, with evidence. Customer data is stored in the Azure region where the customer’s business is located, and AI analysis uses Azure OpenAI in that same region, which supports data sovereignty obligations. Content is analysed in place.
Reducing Manual Processes
Manually searching file shares and mailboxes for sensitive data, or manually triaging every alert, is slow, expensive and easy to get wrong. ShadowSight automates the discovery and classification of sensitive data, and analyst validation takes the triage load off your team.
Context for Investigations
When an insider risk is identified, the quality of the response depends on understanding what actually happened. Because every alert has been validated by an analyst before it reaches you, it comes with the context needed to decide the next step, rather than as a bare event for your team to piece together.
Distinguishing Between Negligence and Malice
Many platforms struggle to tell unintentional risk from deliberate wrongdoing. ShadowSight’s behavioural detection looks at patterns of activity rather than single events, and analyst validation adds human judgement before anyone acts. That helps organisations respond proportionately: guidance for the honest mistake, and a closer look only where the evidence warrants it.
In Summary
Insider risk management fails when it drowns teams in alerts, needs constant tuning and treats staff as suspects. ShadowSight takes a different approach in Microsoft 365: behavioural detection that catches data loss native rules miss, alerts validated by analysts before they reach you, governance that fixes systemic exposure, and a read-only, agentless setup with your data kept in your region. To see it on your own tenant, ask us about a Proof of Value.
CEO & Co-Founder, ShadowSight
Who is Christopher McNaughton
Chris is a proficient problem solver with a strategic aptitude for anticipating and addressing potential business issues, particularly in areas such as Insider Threat, Data Governance, Digital Forensics, Workplace Investigations, and Cyber Security. He thrives on turning intricate challenges into opportunities for increased efficiency, offering pragmatic solutions derived from a practical and realistic approach.
Starting his career as a law enforcement Detective, Chris transitioned to multinational organisations where he specialised and excelled in Cyber Security, proving his authority in the field. Even under demanding circumstances, his commitment to delivering exceptional results remains unwavering, underpinned by his extraordinary ability to understand both cyber and business problems swiftly, along with a deep emphasis on active listening.