Use Case

Office 365 OneDrive Monitoring with 1Security

“Anyone” links, forgotten guests, orphaned OneDrives, and audit logs no one wants to read — OneDrive makes it too easy to lose control. 1Security cuts through the chaos, showing who has access, what’s exposed, and where policy drift puts you at risk.

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What is the challenge?

  • “Anyone” Links & Default Oversharing

    Users share files with “anyone” links or default sharing settings, unintentionally exposing confidential data.

  • Complex & Uncontrolled Guest Access

    Tracking thousands of new and existing guests across OneDrives is difficult without a consolidated view of who has access. (CoreView)

  • Orphaned & Abandoned OneDrives

    Ex-employees’ OneDrives often linger with critical business records, creating compliance, retention, and eDiscovery gaps. (Microsoft Learn)

  • Policy Enforcement at Scale

    Tenant and OneDrive admin centers offer controls, but monitoring configuration drift and enforcing consistent policies across all users is tedious and error-prone. (Microsoft Learn, SharePoint Maven)

  • Audit Noise & Blind Spots

    Raw audit logs and CSV exports bury high-risk activities (e.g., mass downloads, link re-shares), making detection and reporting difficult. (Reddit)

Solution

Doing it with 1Security

Eliminate the blind spots left by native tools. 1Security delivers the clear, consolidated overview you need for Office 365 OneDrive monitoring, compliance, and risk control.

Alternative solutions

Solving it with other methods

Organizations often try to manage SharePoint external sharing with mixed results—approaches that create collaboration bottlenecks, burn admin time, or still miss the full picture of where confidential data is exposed.

  • Manual audits

    Exporting logs, sifting through CSV files, and cross-checking Entra ID accounts. Effective only until you hit 50 active users, then it becomes unmanageable.

  • Microsoft native tools

    SharePoint Admin Center, Microsoft Graph, and Purview provide some details, but they’re spread across multiple dashboards. Admins waste hours just to collect data about an individual user’s OneDrive usage, activity date, or last activity date.

  • Third-party solutions

    Organizations turn to manual audits, Microsoft’s native dashboards, or third-party apps — but each breaks down in practice: too much manual effort, too many disconnected views, or insights so fragmented that teams can’t act on them fast enough.

Benefits

Why OneDrive Monitoring Matters?

1Security gives you complete visibility into OneDrive, detects risky sharing in real time, simplifies compliance reporting, and protects sensitive files — so you stay in control instead of buried in audit logs.

  • Confident Compliance Oversight

    Gain confidence that sensitive business files aren’t silently leaking out of OneDrive, with audit-ready reports and performance metrics at hand.

  • Simplified OneDrive Administration

    Stop wasting hours cross-referencing audit logs, PowerShell scripts, and service status pages; instead, manage everything from a real-time monitoring dashboard.

  • Real-Time Threat Detection

    Monitor user activity, detect risky sharing, invalid API permissions, and unusual file activity in OneDrive the moment it happens, not weeks later in a report.

  • Secure Offboarding & Data Retention

    Can use monitoring insights to support offboarding processes and reduce the risk of abandoned OneDrives.

  • Continuous Compliance Assurance

    Finance, healthcare, government, and education benefit from continuous monitoring that maps directly to compliance frameworks, Microsoft Office standards, and application permissions.

"We used to spend days reviewing logs to track OneDrive sharing. Now 1Security flags risky links instantly. Our auditors love the automated reports—and we finally feel in control."

IT Security Manager, European Financial Services Client

"When an employee left, we discovered years of confidential files sitting in their OneDrive. With 1Security, we now get alerts before data walks out the door. It’s easy to monitor user activity, select OneDrive details, and provide feedback across departments."

Microsoft 365 Admin, Higher Education Institution

"OneDrive used to be our biggest blind spot. With 1Security, we see external shares the moment they happen and can drill into any user’s activity in seconds. Audit prep went from days to minutes."

Head of Information Governance, Healthcare Provider
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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 (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 infrastructur 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.

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