Purview Data Loss Prevention: The First Step to Data Governance
Purview Data Loss Prevention: The First Step to Data Governance As I discussed in my previous blog, data governance is top of mind in most organizations, as it probably is in yours too. Today I am going to continue covering Purview features that can help you get started with data governance. In this installment: Data […]
Get To Know Your Data with Purview Content Explorer
Get To Know Your Data with Purview Content Explorer The Challenge Many organizations have data governance on their minds to some degree. Some are actively working on initiatives to apply retention, data loss prevention, and other controls on the data in their tenant. More often, though, IT organizations struggle with where to start, and how […]
Introduction to Azure Purview – Data Governance
Introduction to Azure Purview – Data Governance The word “purview” is loosely defined as range of vision, scope, operations, and/or insight. In the vast cloud technology landscape that most organizations operate today, data governance is becoming overwhelmingly challenging to maintain. Data sprawl and multi-tenancy make these challenges even more difficult. It is nearly impossibly to truly know your data with absolute certainty, let alone […]
Onboarding Data Sources Into Azure Sentinel
Onboarding Data Sources Into Azure Sentinel Knowing what data you wish to analyze within a SIEM solution provides a tremendous advantage to deploying Azure Sentinel. However, that is not always the case during an initial deployment. You don’t know what you don’t know. Luckily, Microsoft allows free ingestion of most Azure and Office 365 activities […]
Should You Back Up Your Data in Microsoft Office 365?
Should You Back Up Your Data in Microsoft Office 365? In one word? “Maybe” It is a business decision that may depend on a diverse set of factors including: What are your business objectives, requirements, policies, etc? How do your retention policies align with your objectives? Do you have to backup for auditing purposes? If […]
How to Create Data Loss Prevention Custom SITs
How to Create Data Loss Prevention Custom SITs Data loss prevention (DLP) is a strategy for making sure that end users do not send sensitive or critical information outside the corporate network, accidentally or intentionally. Adoption of DLP is being driven by insider threats and by more rigorous state privacy laws, many of which have […]
Availability = Survival
As IT veterans, I’m certain we all have stories like the one I shared previously – many of those without the happy ending. It reminds me of the prime concepts of a (fascinating) survival book I read several years ago by Laurence Gonzales called “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why,” where the key themes of […]
Nutanix – Self Service Restore
Since Nutanix Acropolis Operation System 4.6, Nutanix has offered the Self Service Restore function for virtual machines running Nutanix Guest Tools. This feature allows VM admins to complete a recovery from the Nutanix data protection snapshots with minimal administrator intervention. There are a few ways to accomplish this, I will be walking you through using the […]
