Teams Governance Settings: Balance Collaboration and Risk
Microsoft Teams is an incredibly powerful tool that enables efficient collaboration and information access across an organization. That said, a remarkable number of customers that we work with struggle to manage and secure it the way that they would like to. Much of the time, Teams was enabled during the pandemic to try to help […]
Licensing Optimization: Lessons Learned
Most organizations underutilize their Microsoft 365 licenses. Learn how to evaluate what you have, reduce waste, and unlock productivity, security, and compliance features you may already be paying for.
AI Program Management: Lessons Learned from Infosec
The eGroup Enabling Technologies team has been spending a lot of time in the last few months helping clients preparing and deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot and other AI tools. Through this work, it has become clear that to successfully adopt and maximize the value of these tools, it will require a new program management area […]
The Case for Tabletop Exercises in Incident Response Planning
Tabletop exercises remain a mainstay of disaster recovery and incident management preparation, and with good reason: they provide an accessible and low-cost way to demonstrate the organization’s readiness (or lack thereof) for an adverse event without expensive penetration testing or Red Team attack simulations. Today we will focus on the reasons a tabletop exercise should […]
How Data Archival Brings Stronger Data Governance
The Challenge Quite often I work with clients that are trying to untie the Gordian knot that is data retention and stale data deletion. In most cases, these organizations have adopted some form of “keep everything forever” because it is difficult to get internal legal or risk teams to define a realistic retention policy—or if […]
Secure Sensitive Data with Mobile Application Management
We are constantly inundated with advertisements for new mobile phones and tablets. It always brings to mind the challenges that so many IT groups still have in getting their organizational leaders to agree to better, more secure company data and files on personal mobile devices. Far more organizations than I would expect still use only […]
Stakeholders To Include in Your Organization’s AI Efforts
I had a discussion with a former CIO colleague last week about generative AI and what the impact might look like over the next few years as it starts to take hold in our everyday lives. In some respects, the introduction of tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or Q to the workplace remind us of […]
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 […]
Improve Your Tenant’s Compliance with Purview Compliance Manager
The features of Purview that we’ve discussed so far in this series — Content Explorer, Search, Data Loss Prevention, Sensitivity Labeling, and Data Retention—are all foundational tools to help better secure and govern data in your Microsoft 365 tenant. Today, we are going to look at a Purview feature that will help measure how well […]
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 […]
