Data & Compliance · 3-6 weeks
Microsoft Purview data governance and compliance
Microsoft Purview is how you classify, protect, retain, and prove what happens to sensitive data across Microsoft 365, but it is broad, and a rushed rollout creates more friction than protection. We implement Purview in the right order: a workable classification scheme, sensitivity labels people will actually use, DLP that blocks the real risks, retention that satisfies legal and regulators, and the audit and insider-risk signals to back it up.
What's included
- Information architecture: a practical classification and sensitivity-label taxonomy
- Sensitivity labels with encryption, marking, and auto-labeling policies
- Data Loss Prevention for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and endpoints
- Data lifecycle management: retention labels and policies, records management where needed
- Insider Risk Management policies and a triage workflow
- Audit configuration and retention (Standard or Premium)
- Communication Compliance and eDiscovery setup where in scope
- Compliance Manager baseline and an improvement plan
- Rollout plan, pilot, and end-user guidance
How we work
Scope
A fixed statement of work: what we will do, what you receive, and the timeline. Agreed before any work starts.
Execute
We do the work in your tenant with least-privilege access, with updates at defined checkpoints, not radio silence.
Hand off
Documentation, runbooks, and a walkthrough so your team can operate what we built.
Microsoft Purview Data Governance: common questions
Do we need E5 Compliance for this?
Advanced features, auto-labeling at scale, Insider Risk Management, Premium audit, Communication Compliance, need E5 Compliance or the add-on. Core labeling, manual DLP, and basic retention work on E3. We scope to your licensing.
Will DLP disrupt how people work?
Not if it is rolled out properly. We run policies in simulation mode first, tune the false positives, then move to enforce with user notifications and overrides where appropriate.
Can you help with a specific framework like HIPAA or CMMC?
We map Purview controls to your framework as part of the work, and it pairs well with the Compliance Readiness Assessment if you need the full gap analysis first.
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A short call to understand your environment, then a fixed-scope proposal. Based in Denver, Colorado; we work with clients across the US remotely.