See every audience
Review internal users, external guests, SharePoint groups, Microsoft 365 groups, and sharing links together.
Protect gives Microsoft 365 administrators one place to review who can reach SharePoint content, what they can do, where the access applies, and whether it is inherited or custom.
Native SharePoint controls remain the source of truth. Protect brings scattered permission signals together so reviewers can identify oversharing and licensed administrators can make deliberate, least-privilege changes without losing context.
Review internal users, external guests, SharePoint groups, Microsoft 365 groups, and sharing links together.
Follow access from a workspace to its libraries, lists, folders, files, and custom permission boundaries.
Compare access levels and practical capabilities before deciding whether an entry belongs.
Export focused permission views to Excel for owners, security teams, and auditors.
Use ownership, external sharing, activity, and workspace signals to choose the review scope.
Filter the permission explorer by principal, source, access level, item type, or location.
Grant, change, or remove selected access with deliberate, inheritance-aware actions in Protect Pro.
Refresh the view and export a clear record of the resulting permission state.
Protect provides a workspace overview across the SharePoint sites available to the signed-in user, then opens a detailed permission explorer for the selected scope.
Yes. Permission entries retain their source and location so reviewers can distinguish inherited access from custom permission boundaries.
Protect Pro can grant, change, or remove selected permission entries. The signed-in user must already have the required SharePoint rights.