Microsoft Purview: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Small and Mid-Sized Organizations
Many SMBs stumble when rolling out Microsoft Purview. Discover the most common pitfalls and practical strategies to overcome them for long-term success.
Microsoft Label Groups: What’s Changing and How to Prepare
Microsoft is replacing the old parent/sublabel model with Label Groups in Purview. Discover what changes, what stays the same, and how to prepare with a readiness checklist, migration guidance, and eGroup’s support for data governance.
Purview Secure by Default: Phase 4 – Strategic Data Governance
Phase 4 of Microsoft Purview’s Secure by Default framework focuses on strategic data protection. Learn how to close gaps, involve Site Owners, and protect data beyond Microsoft 365.
Purview Secure by Default: Phase 3 – Optimized Auto-Labeling
Learn how to implement Purview’s Phase 3 auto-labeling to protect data at rest with stricter policies, improved SITs, and user-informed tuning—all part of Microsoft’s Secure by Default framework.
Achieving Successful Data Governance Is More Organizational Than Technical
Data governance isn’t just a technical challenge—it’s an organizational one. This guide breaks down the critical roles, responsibilities, and training needed to ensure your Microsoft Purview deployment delivers meaningful, lasting compliance and data protection.
Bringing Microsoft Purview and Copilot Together to Protect Sensitive Data
Over the past 5 months, this blog series has covered the fundamentals of Microsoft Purview. As we have shown, Purview provides a powerful layer of data-aware visibility and protection that complements more traditional security controls like identity management, access control lists, group memberships, endpoint security, and management tools. Those traditional tools are certainly critical, and […]
Use Data Retention to Reduce Risk
In the past few months, I have discussed the first three foundational elements of Microsoft Purview Compliance: Use Purview Content Explorer searches to identify where sensitive data exists in your tenant, Use Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to prevent sensitive data from being shared outside the organization, and Use Sensitivity Labels to identify and […]
Using Regular Expressions to Build a Microsoft Purview Custom Sensitive Information Type
Using Regular Expressions to Build a Microsoft Purview Custom Sensitive Information Type Introduction A colleague of mine needed to create a Microsoft Purview custom Sensitive Information Type (SIT) for a client– The client wanted to use this SIT as part of their implementation of Microsoft Purview. The client needed the SIT to match on occurrences […]
