Microsoft Purview offers a range of solutions and features that work together to enhance data security. Whether you’re new to Purview or an existing administrator looking to maximize its potential, navigating these tools can be daunting. To simplify this process and boost your data security posture, Microsoft’s Purview engineering team has launched a new content series on Microsoft Learn called “Notes from engineering.”
This series covers various types of content, including Purview deployment models, feature playbooks, and articles like Ninja Training recommendations and FAQs. The first published Purview deployment model focuses on being “Secure by default with Microsoft Purview and addressing oversharing.”
By leveraging Microsoft Purview sensitivity labeling, you can efficiently protect your data by encrypting it and preventing oversharing. These labels can also be integrated into other solutions like Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Insider Risk Management to enhance security measures.
The traditional approach of ‘crawl-walk-run’ can be slow due to challenges like defining label taxonomy, encryption concerns, and limited adoption. However, the detailed guide provided in the series offers a different approach, emphasizing configuring secure sensitivity labeling, using label publishing defaults, and leveraging contextual defaults in SharePoint sites for rapid deployment.
This new approach focuses on default protection application, training users on managing exceptions like external sharing, and aligning Teams and SharePoint site labeling with file labels to streamline the process. By following the recommended labels and activities outlined in the guide, organizations can maximize the potential of Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and enhance data security within Microsoft 365.
The guidance provided in the series aims to quickly establish foundational features for protecting content, prioritize protection, secure historical data, and extend protection beyond Microsoft 365. This strategy also helps organizations combat internal oversharing, improve enterprise search capabilities, and ensure Copilot responses align with the highest priority sensitivity label.
To delve deeper into this topic, you can explore the “Secure by default with Microsoft Purview and address oversharing” blueprint, presentation, and guide available on Microsoft’s platform. Stay tuned for more Purview deployment models addressing various deployment scenarios to further enhance your data security posture.
