Success Stories

Discover how leading organizations use Siemly to transform Microsoft 365 activity logs into critical insights across Legal, HR, IT, and compliance teams. From fraud detection to M&A due diligence, see real-world results.

Rapidly Clear an Innocent Employee

Legal
Technology

Challenge

A long-tenured employee was wrongly accused of data theft, creating workplace tension and potential legal exposure.

Solution

Siemly mapped download history and Teams activity to provide comprehensive evidence of the employee's actual activities.

Results

Employee exonerated within hours, restoring trust and preventing wrongful termination lawsuit.

Key Metrics

  • Investigation Time: Hours vs. Days
  • Trust Restored: 100%
  • Legal Risk: Eliminated

Uncover Poached Sales Team Pre-Acquisition

Legal
Financial Services

Challenge

During merger talks, concerns arose about potential data exfiltration by key sales representatives.

Solution

Siemly highlighted unusual recruiter emails and file transfers, revealing insider movements and competitive intelligence theft.

Results

Discovered coordinated poaching effort, enabling informed negotiation and risk mitigation strategies.

Key Metrics

  • Threat Detection: Real-time
  • Sales Team Risk: Identified
  • M&A Impact: Mitigated

Prevent Data Leaks During M&A

Legal
Venture Capital

Challenge

A startup's OneDrive upload spike raised alarm bells during due diligence, threatening deal closure.

Solution

Siemly flagged abnormal downloads and external sharing patterns, providing detailed analysis of data movement.

Results

Enabled informed investment decisions with clear risk assessment and data protection measures.

Key Metrics

  • Deal Risk: Quantified
  • Data Exposure: Prevented
  • Due Diligence: Accelerated

HR Detects Policy Violations

HR
Healthcare

Challenge

HR suspected harassment and inappropriate employee behavior but lacked concrete evidence.

Solution

Siemly surfaced relevant Teams chats, shared content, and login patterns to provide comprehensive behavior analysis.

Results

Policy violations promptly identified and addressed, creating safer workplace environment.

Key Metrics

  • Detection Speed: Immediate
  • Evidence Quality: Comprehensive
  • Workplace Safety: Improved

Legal Team Enables Self-Service Investigations

Legal
Manufacturing

Challenge

Legal team needed access to logs for incident response, but IT department was overloaded with requests.

Solution

Siemly empowered Legal to search logs, preserve data, and initiate legal holds without IT involvement.

Results

Reduced dependency on IT, accelerated investigation timelines, and improved response efficiency.

Key Metrics

  • IT Dependency: Eliminated
  • Response Time: 50% Faster
  • Self-Service: 100%

Incident Response with Timeline Visualization

IT
Professional Services

Challenge

Suspicious behavior detected during a remote worker's exit required immediate investigation.

Solution

Siemly created comprehensive timeline showing logins, file deletions, and email forwards in chronological order.

Results

Full story revealed in minutes, enabling immediate containment and evidence preservation.

Key Metrics

  • Timeline Creation: Minutes
  • Evidence Quality: Forensic-grade
  • Containment: Immediate

Proactive Detection of Employee Malfeasance

IT
Financial Services

Challenge

Compliance team wanted to catch insider threats early before significant damage occurred.

Solution

Siemly continuously scanned logs for anomalies including unusual downloads and off-hours activities.

Results

Preemptive action enabled, preventing data breaches and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Key Metrics

  • Threat Detection: Proactive
  • Breach Prevention: 100%
  • Compliance: Maintained

Ensure Forensic-Grade Preservation

Legal
Technology

Challenge

Litigation demands required audit-quality evidence that would stand up in court proceedings.

Solution

Siemly preserved immutable logs and exported them with chain-of-custody support for legal proceedings.

Results

Court-ready evidence provided with complete audit trail and forensic integrity.

Key Metrics

  • Evidence Quality: Forensic-grade
  • Chain of Custody: Maintained
  • Court Readiness: 100%

Reduce Over-Collection Costs

Legal
Enterprise

Challenge

Traditional litigation workflows collected massive troves of M365 data, creating excessive costs.

Solution

Siemly pinpointed critical logs and eliminated unnecessary data collection through intelligent filtering.

Results

Collection and review volume reduced by up to 50%, significantly lowering litigation costs.

Key Metrics

  • Cost Reduction: 50%
  • Data Volume: Optimized
  • Efficiency: Improved

Scale Diligence Across Portfolios

Legal
Venture Capital

Challenge

VC firm needed consistent due diligence across multiple target companies in their portfolio.

Solution

Siemly enabled fast, repeatable reports on user activity, legal holds, and data patterns across investments.

Results

Portfolio-wide risk assessment standardized with consistent, reliable data analysis.

Key Metrics

  • Scalability: Portfolio-wide
  • Consistency: Standardized
  • Risk Assessment: Comprehensive

White-Collar Crime Investigation

Legal
Financial Services

Challenge

Compliance team suspected internal fraud but lacked concrete evidence and investigation tools.

Solution

Siemly uncovered unusual email forwards, download spikes, and deleted files to accelerate internal investigations.

Results

Internal fraud investigation accelerated with comprehensive evidence trail and suspicious activity patterns.

Key Metrics

  • Investigation Speed: Accelerated
  • Evidence Quality: Comprehensive
  • Fraud Detection: Enhanced

Employment Dispute Resolution

HR
Professional Services

Challenge

Employee alleged wrongful termination and improper data usage, requiring detailed evidence for HR decision-making.

Solution

Siemly provided clear timeline of logins, file modifications, and Teams chats to support HR with comprehensive evidence.

Results

HR equipped with detailed evidence timeline to support decision-making and resolve employment dispute effectively.

Key Metrics

  • Evidence Timeline: Complete
  • HR Support: Comprehensive
  • Dispute Resolution: Effective

Sophisticated M&A Leak Detection

Legal
Technology

Challenge

Startup CEO feared data exfiltration before sale, threatening deal value and confidentiality.

Solution

Siemly highlighted off-hours downloads and SharePoint sharing patterns to inform negotiation points during due diligence.

Results

M&A leak detection enabled informed negotiation and protected deal value through comprehensive activity monitoring.

Key Metrics

  • Leak Detection: Proactive
  • Deal Protection: Secured
  • Due Diligence: Informed

Custodian Mapping for Litigation

Legal
Healthcare

Challenge

Legal counsel needed to quickly identify key document holders in a complex lawsuit.

Solution

Siemly rapidly surfaced who accessed, edited, or shared relevant files, eliminating manual log review.

Results

Key custodians identified in minutes rather than days, significantly accelerating litigation preparation.

Key Metrics

  • Time Savings: Days to Minutes
  • Custodian Mapping: Automated
  • Litigation Prep: Accelerated

Cost-Saving Targeted Collection

Legal
Enterprise

Challenge

Litigation hold threatened to over-collect terabytes of M365 data, creating excessive costs.

Solution

Siemly isolated activity from key custodians only, eliminating unnecessary data collection.

Results

Collection and review volume reduced by approximately 50%, delivering significant cost savings.

Key Metrics

  • Cost Reduction: ~50%
  • Data Volume: Optimized
  • Collection: Targeted

Insider Threat Monitoring

IT
Financial Services

Challenge

Compliance team wanted early warning system for malicious or risky employee behavior.

Solution

Siemly flagged anomalies like mass downloads, external sharing, and abnormal logins before formal incidents occurred.

Results

Proactive threat detection enabled prevention of security incidents and data breaches.

Key Metrics

  • Threat Detection: Proactive
  • Incident Prevention: Enhanced
  • Early Warning: Automated

Automated Incident Response

IT
Technology

Challenge

Phishing attack triggered unusual logins requiring immediate response and account isolation.

Solution

Siemly integrated with SIEM platforms to auto-alert and isolate affected accounts or endpoints.

Results

Response time dramatically reduced through automated incident detection and isolation capabilities.

Key Metrics

  • Response Time: Dramatic Reduction
  • Automation: SIEM Integration
  • Account Isolation: Immediate

Compliance Reporting & Auditing

Legal
Financial Services

Challenge

FINRA-regulated firm required comprehensive audit trails for regulatory compliance.

Solution

Siemly generated repeatable logs on login events, file access, MFA changes, and policy violations.

Results

Regulatory reporting simplified with automated, comprehensive audit trail generation.

Key Metrics

  • Audit Trails: Comprehensive
  • Regulatory Reporting: Simplified
  • Compliance: Automated

Multi-System Event Correlation

IT
Enterprise

Challenge

User accessed M365 from unusual location while simultaneously present at office badge reader.

Solution

Siemly's logs, when fed into SIEM, flagged impossible travel patterns for comprehensive security review.

Results

Multi-system correlation enabled detection of sophisticated security threats through impossible travel analysis.

Key Metrics

  • Event Correlation: Multi-system
  • Threat Detection: Sophisticated
  • Security Review: Comprehensive

App Consent & OAuth Risk Detection

IT
Technology

Challenge

Unsanctioned apps gained broad access via Graph OAuth, creating security vulnerabilities.

Solution

Siemly identified new app activity and flagged suspicious access, empowering admin to revoke harmful consent.

Results

OAuth risk detection enabled proactive app security management and prevented unauthorized access.

Key Metrics

  • Risk Detection: Proactive
  • Access Control: Enhanced
  • App Security: Managed