Capgemini Sovereign: Data Protection & Cyber Defence

OVERVIEW

Microsoft Sovereign Key Management and Data Protection helps organizations protect sensitive data across Microsoft 365, Azure, SaaS, applications, databases, and hybrid environments. The offer combines Microsoft Purview, Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Managed HSM, CMK, BYOK, HYOK, Double Key Encryption, data discovery, DSPM, DLP, retention, archiving, tokenization, masking, encryption, and audit evidence. It enables Clients to apply the right protection and key-control pattern based on data sensitivity, business need, and sovereignty requirements.

CLIENT OUTCOMES

Clients will achieve: Better visibility of sensitive data, ownership, access, exposure, and retention. Reduced data-loss and ransomware risk through DLP, encryption, tokenization, masking, and access controls. Stronger control over high-value encryption keys, secrets, approvals, recovery, and lifecycle management. Improved audit, privacy, regulatory, and board-level evidence. A scalable Microsoft security and data protection foundation for cloud, AI, collaboration, and hybrid transformation.

CORE DELIVERABLES

1. Data Discovery and Classification Inventory of sensitive data across Microsoft 365, Azure, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Crown-jewel data identification, classification, labeling, ownership, and handling rules. DSPM risk baseline covering sensitivity, location, access, exposure, and retention.

2. DataShield Protection Architecture Architecture for Purview DLP, retention, archiving, encryption, tokenization, masking, and integrity controls. Protection patterns for collaboration, applications, APIs, databases, and cloud data platforms. First-wave remediation backlog and quick-win recommendations.

3. Sovereign Key Management Model Azure Key Vault, Managed HSM, CMK, BYOK, HYOK, DKE, eKMS, and HSM decision model. Key lifecycle design for creation, rotation, backup, recovery, escrow, retirement, and destruction. Client-controlled custody, separation of duties, approval, and evidence model for priority workloads.

4. Identity, Monitoring, and Evidence Entra ID, least-privilege, privileged access, conditional access, and break-glass design. Integration with Defender, Sentinel, Purview, Azure activity logs, and key-management monitoring. Audit trails, dashboards, exception workflows, and compliance reporting.

5. Microsoft Sovereign Data Protection Blueprint Reference architecture integrating Purview, Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Managed HSM, DLP, DSPM, encryption, tokenization, and audit evidence. Repeatable patterns for Microsoft 365, Azure, SaaS, hybrid, application, database, and AI-sensitive data workloads. Regional and global guidance for residency, resilience, recovery, and operating governance.

APPROACH

Assess: Identify crown-jewel data, Microsoft workloads, key domains, risks, and sovereignty requirements. Design: Define the target architecture, protection patterns, key-placement model, policies, and governance. Implement: Deploy classification, DLP, encryption, tokenization, key management, identity controls, monitoring, and evidence. Validate: Test controls, recovery, access, policy enforcement, and priority workload use cases. Operate: Establish KPIs, runbooks, lifecycle governance, reporting, and continuous improvement.

WHY THIS OFFER

Sensitive data is expanding across Microsoft 365, Azure, SaaS, AI, and hybrid environments while privacy, ransomware, regulatory, and sovereignty pressures increase. This offer helps Clients use Microsoft capabilities as an integrated protection foundation while extending key custody and higher-assurance controls where needed. It protects data, governs keys, limits access, reduces exposure, and produces defensible evidence.

IDEAL CLIENT

Organizations using Microsoft 365, Azure, Purview, Defender, Sentinel, and Entra ID. Enterprises handling regulated, highly confidential, or sovereignty-sensitive data. Clients modernizing collaboration, cloud, AI, applications, data platforms, or hybrid environments. Organizations facing data sprawl, key sprawl, weak DLP, audit findings, privacy obligations, ransomware risk, or recovery concerns.

NEXT STEP

Engage Capgemini for a focused Microsoft Sovereign Key Management and Data Protection assessment to identify crown-jewel data, control gaps, quick wins, and a prioritized implementation roadmap.