Proactive & Reactive Security: A First Look at Purview Data Security Investigations

Investigating data security issues or breaches can be time consuming and complex. Traditionally, we spend our time scouring through logs and searching keywords. This is made more complex because, for those investigating a breach, it’s often very difficult to understand the nature of the data impacted. Purview Data Security Investigation (DSI) is in fact all about the data!  It leverages AI to help investigators determine the nature of data involved in a breach so that they can better understand its impact.  Purview DSI leverages AI to search, perform deep content analysis, categorize and summarize potentially breached data much more quickly and efficiently so we can ultimately be better informed as we identify impact and how to mitigate a breach in the future. 
Let’s take a deeper look at Purview DSI.

Microsoft Syntex – Big Data Analytics for SharePoint & OneDrive with Project Archimedes

Have you ever worked in a very large enterprise scale SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business environment?  I mean a Microsoft 365 tenant that contains 10,000 or 20,000 sites, or 50,000 sites or even 100,000 sites? An environment with 10 Million + files? 50,000+ users?

If you have, you understand some challenges in trying to get detailed & timely analytics on the current state, including permissions for all files across all sites, the storage info for all those sites, or which groups are consuming all your space.

Microsoft recently announced that Syntex will provide some exciting new capabilities with Project Archimedes (code name) which will help to get us this data quickly and in a form that we can easily report on, across very large enterprise scale environments. Lets see what Project Archimedes is about!

Govern and Secure SharePoint and OneDrive with Microsoft Syntex – SharePoint Advanced Management

Microsoft has recently added to the Microsoft Syntex product family with a feature set called SharePoint Advanced Management. We’ll use the acronym SAM throughout this blog.  This feature set is specifically targeted at SharePoint Online environments and its designed to give SharePoint Administrators capabilities to better govern SharePoint and OneDrive, and to enhance secure collaboration within Microsoft 365. Lets take a look at the powerful feature set.

Securely Manage and Govern Global Administrators in Office 365

Due to the fact that the Office 365 Global Administrator role is all powerful and has access to all Office 365 capabilities, there is good reason to ensure that all users with Global Administrator access are securely managed and governed. At a high level, common industry standard practices are to restrict access to this role …
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