Managing data security in today’s complex landscape is a significant challenge. Businesses need to secure emails, messages, shared storage, and cloud apps as well as all the devices that data is accessed on. Complicating matters further, the average company’s data footprint keeps growing exponentially. It’s a conundrum, and today’s organisations are struggling with a fragmented solution landscape. Organisations tend to adopt multiple tools to address their data security needs. However, this approach can be costly, hard to manage and still leave gaps with 2.8x more data security incidents happening in organisaations that employ more than 16 plus security tools than those with fewer1. Therefore, adopting a holistic approach to data security is essential.
Taking ownership of data security
In 2023 74% of organisations experienced an incident with business data, reinforcing the data security threats organisations face. To effectively manage and mitigate these risks, companies must adopt a comprehensive data security solution. Microsoft Purview provides companies with the essential data controls to help govern and protect your data across multiple data estates, whilst adhering to compliance regulations.
Microsoft Purview Information protection– Protects your sensitive data by offering insight into where your data is located and an understanding of what data is currently structured and unstructured. From here you can begin the classification and labelling of data and apply controls consistently across data types.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention– This solution provides controls to prevent data loss or unauthorised use of that data such as improperly sharing.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management– Provides context around data and leverages built-in, ready to-use machine learning models to detect and mitigate the most critical security risks around that data. The solution correlates various signals to identify potentially malicious or advertent insider risks. These risks include IP theft, data leakage, and security violations.
What is adaptive protection?
In today’s modern workplace, data security risk is dynamic. The type of content changes, just as the people who interact with that data shifts. What people do with that data changes too, meaning that data security becomes increasingly complex to manage. Previous broad, static policies no longer work, as at one extreme they can run the risk of not doing anything at all, versus on the other hand where they can over protect data to the point where employees can’t get anything done at all.
The switch to adaptive protection solution such as Microsoft Purview, helps you solve these challenges by addressing critical risk dynamically. With adaptive protection the built-in indicators and machine learning models continuously detect and mitigate the most critical risks for both content and users. It enables you to gain better understanding of risk by using Insider Risk Management to understand user context and gain insights into how that data is being used. Adaptive protection then goes on to automatically adjust the right level of mitigation controls based on the risks detected. It will constantly adjust the control to be dialed up and down when a user’s risk level changes. As a result, adaptive protection, not only helps reduce the security team’s workload but also makes DLP more effective by continuously optimising policies.
Take the first step to achieving data security today
CWSI have developed our Data Classification Readiness Assessment to assist organisations in identifying their organisations current data risks and develop a roadmap for implementing a data classification program using Microsoft Purview. We use an advanced discovery tool, in conjunction with our tried and tested requirements gathering workshop methodology, to equip customers with all the fundamental building blocks to start implementing a structured Data Classification program. What is included in the output:
- What data lives in your cloud.
- Where that data resides.
- How it flows between users, contacts, and organisations.
- A documented set of requirements for your Data Classification program, based on a workshop led by our expert data security consultants.
- A roadmap of recommended next steps to implement a data classification project using Microsoft Sensitivity labels
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Content originated from Microsoft
- Microsoft, ‘Data Security Index’ 2023 ↩︎
