Use Cases

Office 365 Activity Report

Office 365 is your operating system. So why does it feel like a black box? You generate millions of user activity events—logins, downloads, shares—but have little visibility into what they actually mean. Native reports give you lists, not answers. 1Security connects those scattered signals into a single, context-rich view, showing how data moves, who touches it, and where risks are hiding.

Office 365bMonitoring for SharePoint, OneDrive, Purview, Entra, Applications, Copilot, Outlook

What is the challenge?

  • Fragmented audit data

    Activity details are spread across multiple M365 dashboards, making it hard to reconstruct what happened until well after an incident.

  • Context-free noise

    Native Microsoft activity reports show that a file was downloaded, but not whether it was sensitive or risky, making every alert look the same.

  • Hidden oversharing risks

    Standard microsoft reports miss external access patterns or quiet permission drifts that create security gaps without warning.

  • Incident paralysis

    When a breach happens, there’s no time to run PowerShell or wait for exports and indexing. Native tools delay answers by critical days or weeks.

  • Compliance complexity

    Proving control during ISO, SOC 2, or GDPR audits becomes manual and error-prone when evidence is scattered across Microsoft 365 services.

Solution

Doing It with 1Security

Native reporting gives you a sea of unrelated events—a login here, a download there—with zero connection between them. 1Security replaces that chaos with context. We connect the dots between scattered logs to reveal what actually happened, why it matters, and what the user intended.

  • The Full Story, Not Just the Events

    Don’t just see “File Downloaded.” See the sequence: Risk Flag → Permission Escalation → 2,000 Files Downloaded → Sent to Personal Email. Context shows what really happened.

    Detailed Permissions and Sensitive Data Exposure Risk scoring in Office 365
  • Unified Activity Timeline

    Consolidates actions across SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, and Exchange into a single, searchable dashboard enriched with access context.

    MS 365 Auditing With Time Travel - Centralizing Usage, Exposure and Permission Data Across Time for Forensics, Administration and Cybersecurity
  • Permission-Aware Insights

    Shows specific user activity alongside current access rights, helping teams understand what a user can see and how their permissions evolve.

    OneDrive File access graph with apps, sensitive data, external users and risk alerts
  • Sensitive Data Tracking

    Flags when confidential files or sites were accessed, modified, or shared—supporting compliance and investigation efforts within your organization.

    Files and their permissions list for MS 365 ecosystem - centralizing access, sensitive data & application exposure, along with permission creep and usage insights
  • Real-Time Risk Alerts

    Proactively identify and flag anomalous access patterns, oversharing of sensitive data, and critical configuration changes before they turn into incidents.

    Forensics access timeline
  • Audit-ready reports

    Stop pasting CSVs into Excel to prove compliance. Generate immutable, timeline-based evidence for ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA that shows who accessed what and when, giving auditors clear “who, what, where, why.”

    Visibility and reporting dashboards
  • Context Is King

    A download alone is noise. A sensitive download by a departing employee is a crisis. We enrich events with business context — sensitivity, user status, and history — so teams instantly see what matters.

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  • Time-Travel Forensics

    Incident response often starts with “What did this look like before?” Time Travel lets teams review past permissions and activity exactly as they were, so incidents can be investigated with proper context.

    MS 365 Security Alerts With Time Travel
Alternative solutions

Solving It with Other Methods

Native reporting dumps millions of raw events on your lap—a massive “haystack” with zero context. Your team burns hours acting as manual data processors, sifting noise while threats like data exfiltration slip through unnoticed.

  • Manual Log Exports

    Admins combine CSVs from multiple Microsoft 365 admin center hubs, losing relationships between actions, permissions, and affected content.

  • PowerShell Scripts

    Scripts are fragile and costly to maintain. They can pull raw data, but they don’t show the context behind a user downloading 2,000 files.

  • Native Search Tools

    Microsoft’s built-in tools show isolated events but lack a unified report view. Teams jump between portals to understand a single incident.

  • SIEM Integrations

    SIEMs ingest logs, but lack file-level context, permission visibility, and sensitivity insight — slowing audits and incident response.

Benefits

Why Office 365 Activity Reporting Matters?

Activity reporting isn’t just logging—it’s how you prove the house isn’t on fire. The trouble is, M365 likes to hide the smoke alarms. 1Security brings everything into one clear view so teams can secure data, solve issues faster, and keep compliance refreshingly uneventful.

  • Clear User Behavior Insight

    Understand how users within your organization interact with sensitive data and collaboration tools, preventing silent oversharing.

  • Incident Response at the speed of attack

    Unified report views eliminate time-consuming log hunting, helping teams pinpoint root causes instantly.

  • Compliance Confidence

    Demonstrate control with immutable logs, detailed, structured activity report evidence that supports ISO, SOC 2, GDPR, and internal governance requirements.

  • Visibility for AI Adoption

    See which files Copilot or apps could access, ensuring AI rollout doesn’t expose confidential data.

  • Operational Efficiency

    Reduce manual log work, remove report fragmentation, and help teams act on clear, connected insight.

"Investigations used to stall while we pulled logs from multiple 365 admin center sources. With 1Security’s unified timeline, we traced a critical user activity change in minutes and resolved the audit far faster than before."

Security Lead, Financial Services

"We kept missing silent oversharing between research teams. 1Security connected activity with permissions instantly, helping us identify exposure we’d overlooked for months and secure several high-risk sites the same day."

IT Manager, Research Institution

"We had a suspected data leak, but trying to trace the activity from three Microsoft portals was a dead end. 1Security consolidated the logs into one clear timeline, showing us the root cause in minutes, not weeks."

Information Security Officer, Global Manufacturing
Customers

Who Benefits Most?

1Security supports organizations of all sizes — from highly regulated industries to fast-growing mid-size firms.

  • Professional Services

    Sharing deliverables with external users - protect site sharing while fostering collaboration.

  • Education / Research

    Engage students and guest users or collaborators securely without risking confidential information or oversharing to new and existing guests.

  • Regulated Industries and critical sectors (Finance, Healthcare)

    Enforce sharing settings, maintain control over external sharing in SharePoint, and meet compliance needs without manual effort.

  • Nonprofits / NGOs

    Collaborate across fast moving organization infrastructure while securing sensitive data and preventing misuse of share files workflows.

Integrations

Works seamlessly with your ecosystem

1Security connects natively with the tools you already use — giving you full visibility and control without adding complexity.

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Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about the product.

  • Do you support ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR work?

    Yes. 1Security maps findings and evidence to common control frameworks, helping organizations demonstrate compliance more efficiently.

  • Can non-technical stakeholders use it?

    Yes. Plain-language reports and read-only views make it easy for compliance, legal, and business stakeholders to see the evidence behind findings without needing admin rights.

  • Is this only for large enterprises?

    No. While designed for complex environments, 1Security is equally valuable for mid-sized organizations running Microsoft 365 or Office 365 that need strong visibility into access, activity, and compliance.

  • Does this help me prepare for a data audit?

    Absolutely. 1Security provides the documented, immutable evidence of who accessed what and when. This eliminates the need for manual preparation, giving you audit-ready reports on demand for common standards.

  • How does this support AI readiness?

    It shows which users, apps, or AI agents could access sensitive files and highlights activity patterns relevant to Copilot deployment.

  • Does it help during incident investigations?

    Yes. You can filter events, review historical access, and soon replay states to understand what happened before and after an incident.

  • Can I track historical changes to a user’s access and activity?

    Yes. 1Security maintains a complete historical audit trail. You can see what a user’s permissions looked like before a critical change or leak and even restore access one-to-one in a simple way.

  • How does 1Security provide a better activity report than Microsoft’s native tools?

    Native tools are fragmented, requiring you to check different admin centers for activity, permissions, and sensitive data. 1Security aggregates these signals into a single, contextual report, making security and audit tasks straightforward and fast.

Gain visibility. Ensure compliance. Boost productivity.

Stop guessing who has access to your sensitive data. With 1Security, you gain the visibility, automation, and confidence needed to protect your Microsoft 365 environment.