Hello, and welcome to alerts and alert policies. To view and manage alerts in Defender for Office 365, you now use the Microsoft 365 Security Center, which actually pulls together Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Microsoft 365 Defender, and other security features into one place.

Alert management is performed in the security and compliance center at https://protection.office.com. In the left pane of the Security and Compliance Center, you'll see the alerts option. From here, you can view the alerts dashboard, you can view alerts, you can configure alert policies, and you can manage advanced alerts through cloud app security.

The alerts dashboard is a customizable dashboard that provides an overview of alert trends, recent alerts and active alerts by severity. You can also create and manage alert policies right from the dashboard. It's essentially a single pane of glass for managing alerting. Clicking View Alerts in the left pane allows you to view alert information for your organization. The alerts policies option allows you to create and configure alert policies.

Alert policies allow you to track user and admin activities, malware threats or data loss incidents within the organization. When you configure an alert policy, you have to first choose what activity you wish to be alerted on.

Once you've done that, you can add conditions that determine when to trigger the alert, and who should receive notifications whenever the alert fires. Clicking Manage Advanced Alerts takes you to cloud app security.

Now, since this course doesn't focus on cloud app security, we're not going to get into the weeds here. And to be honest, we could probably do an entire course just on cloud app security. So instead, what we'll do now is jump into the next lesson where you'll get to watch over my shoulder as I create a new alert policy.