Data Security Workshop

Benefits of a Data Security Workshop

Emergent Software’s Data Security Workshop helps IT leaders uncover data security, privacy, and compliance risks across Microsoft 365, including dark organizational data and insider risk indicators. Using Microsoft Purview, we deliver a clear, actionable view of where sensitive data lives, how it is being used, and what to do next to reduce exposure and strengthen governance.

• Expose Sensitive Data Risk
  Identify sensitive data locations, overexposed content, and risky sharing patterns across Microsoft 365.
  
  
• Reduce Insider Risk
  Surface high risk behaviors and activities tied to sensitive information to support early detection and prevention.
  
  
• Strengthen Compliance Posture
  Assess alignment to key privacy and data protection expectations and prioritize gaps to address.
  
  
• Enable Executive Ready Decisions
  Translate technical findings into clear risks, priorities, and next steps for CIO, CTO, and CISO stakeholders.
  
  
• Accelerate Secure AI Adoption
  Highlight data security considerations related to Copilot and generative AI readiness and provide actions to reduce leakage risk.
  
  

Data Security Workshop includes:

• Kickoff and Readiness Alignment
  • Confirm stakeholders, objectives, and success criteria.
  • Validate Microsoft 365 readiness, licensing, and feature availability.
  • Align on the discovery scope across Microsoft 365 services and selected module.
• Microsoft 365 Data Security Check (Automated Discovery)
  • Configure and run discovery to identify sensitive information, stale data, risky storage locations, and suspicious activity indicators.
  • Review data risk across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive, and Teams.
  • Evaluate user behavior signals using Insider Risk Management.
• Microsoft Security Capabilities Leveraged
  • Use Microsoft Purview capabilities to discover, classify, and assess sensitive data risk across Microsoft 365.
  • Leverage Azure backed security and compliance services to enable monitoring and risk insights across the environment.
  • Optionally include Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI to assess AI related data exposure and risk.
• Required Additional Module Selection
  • Based on licensing and feature availability, Emergent will select one additional module to maximize quality of collected insights.
  • Compliance Manager
  • Communication Compliance
  • Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI
• Analysis of Findings
  • Analyze discovery outputs to identify high to medium high impact risks.
  • Identify risky storage locations, oversharing patterns, and high risk user activity related to sensitive information.
  • Prioritize findings based on impact, likelihood, and business relevance.
• Recommendations and Roadmap
  • Provide targeted recommendations to reduce sensitive data exposure and improve ongoing governance.
  • Map recommendations to Microsoft security and compliance capabilities that can mitigate identified risks.
  • Deliver a practical roadmap outlining prioritized next steps and sequencing.
• Executive Closeout and Deliverables
  • Present an executive readout summarizing risks, priorities, and next steps.
  • Deliver a comprehensive data security report with findings, impacts, and recommendations.
  • Enablement of key Microsoft security and analysis services used for ongoing visibility after the engagement.