Compliance requirements across Microsoft’s suite of services require a centralized platform for IT admins, where a bird’s eye view of the entire environment can make it easier to keep tabs on everything that’s happening and manage it in one place. Enter the Microsoft 365 compliance center. With multiple features and tools, the platform makes it easier to manage compliance in a centralized environment. Here are some of the many aspects covered by the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: 1. Compliance Management: Provides powerful capabilities like monitoring compliance status, viewing audit logs, and generating reports to ensure adherence to regulation. A comprehensive checklist for IT administrators can help guide the compliance process. 2. Data protection: Provides capabilities to ensure data security across the entire Microsoft 365 environment remains secure, like Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and sensitivity labeling. You can create policies and ensure data compliance through automated checks and balances. 3. Information governance: Enforces information governance policies, like managing retention policies, applying legal holds for data preservation during litigation, and ensuring automated data policies. 4. Advanced eDiscovery: Provides eDiscovery capabilities to make it easier to search, preserve, and export relevant data for legal or regulatory purposes. 5. Minimize Internal Risks: Provides advanced capabilities to identify and minimize potential risks. This includes creating insider risk management policies to minimize internal risks and communication risks. 6. Third-party integrations: You can connect the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center data sources with third-party solutions and integrate them with eDiscovery partners and third-party information protection solutions.