Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
Risk Offering with Microsoft Purview
Reducing data loss requires leadership from corporate governance, risk management, and compliance and engagement from the business. However, companies often treat DLP as a standalone IT project, creating a gap between data loss prevention (DLP) strategies and results. Without proper business involvement, technology departments make inaccurate assumptions about business risk, causing DLP systems to fail in effectively preventing data loss.
Performanta’s business-first approach offers a data protection service steeped in governance, risk and compliance. We help you accurately report on overexposed, redundant, obsolete, and trivial data, unsafe business practices, accidental or malicious activities, and how your risks can be driven down over time.
Common Examples of DLP Failures
Data comes in many forms that help companies function operationally and strategically. A non-strategic DLP programme creates numerous issues:
Accidental sensitive information leaks, such as sending customer information to the wrong contact
Failure to implement proper legal policies around breach notifications
Alert overload that encumbers security operations
IT security use cases are prioritised over business risk reduction use cases
Little representation and mitigation of data priorities on risk registers
DLP is primarily a growing cost centre with little apparent value
Unique Service Offering
Performanta will work with GRC, business, and technology stakeholders to create fit-for-purpose data security solutions that don’t impede business or overwhelm technology and security teams. We conduct workshops to establish alignment between all people involved with managing data risks, governance, and compliance, then build a DLP strategy informed by those collaborations.
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We combine our business experts, security engineers, and top software, including Microsoft Purview, to create organisation-wide risk management that can evolve as data risks change—even creating information and policies that can apply to any subsequent DLP programme. Performanta chooses Microsoft Purview for data management. It acts as a force multiplier for hard-pressed IT, security, and data governance teams, and combines multiple point solutions into one suite managed from one portal.
Microsoft Purview Data Security
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Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Policy templates and tools to identify, monitor, and protect data
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Information Barriers: Internal policies to maintain data confidentiality and compliance
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Information Protection: Classifying and safeguarding data throughout life cycles
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Insider Risk Management: Detecting and mitigating internal data threats and negligence
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Privileged Access Management: Monitoring and managing data access privileges
Microsoft Purview Data Governance
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Data Mapping: Comprehensive classifications, lineage, metadata, etc.
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Data Catalogue: Comprehensive discovery through metadata
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Data Analytics: Tailored data health ownership, governance, etc. dashboards
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Data Policy Implementation: Develop and manage data access policies
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Data Sharing: Secure, compliant data sharing within and across organisations
Microsoft Purview Risk and Compliance
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Audit/Compliance Management: Comprehensive audit logs and custom retention policies
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Communication Compliance: Monitor communication channels to maintain data compliance
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Data Lifecycle Management: Classify and govern data at scale for various obligations
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eDiscovery: Data discovery and management for legal or internal investigations
Microsoft 365 Copilot + Purview
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AI Integration: Leverage AI for data security processing and compliance
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Data Management and Sharing: Enhanced authentication controls to strengthen identity processes
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Data Classification/Protection: AI-led discovery and isolation of sensitive information
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Data Lifecycle Management: Archiving policies to ensure data retention compliance
Outcomes
Performanta’s GRC and security experts, armed with Microsoft Purview, establish visible, tangible, and evolving data compliance and risk management:
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Inclusion of data and risk stakeholders, from business to IT, legal, and risk managers.
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Nurturing a data risk-mitigation programme that focuses and evolves based on priorities.
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Data protection policies designed around business risk requirements.
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Data classifiers that can be reused for future and even unrelated DLP programmes.
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Integration with SOCs and risk management and governance systems.
Data GRC and Security on your terms
Data security is a governance, risk, and compliance concern driven by business requirements and implemented by technology and security teams. It’s fundamentally a collaborative programme supported by technical design. Performanta helps you combine all the elements and deliver a cohesive and targeted DLP strategy underpinned by modern security and data management technologies. Let our GRC professionals help you govern and secure your data at every level, email the team at enquiries@performanta.com