A Data Governance Approach to Microsoft Purview
Why Microsoft Purview with Bridewell?
- Implementing Microsoft Purview for Effective Data Governance and Compliance: Our approach to implementing and deploying Microsoft Purview is driven by data governance, with a focus on ensuring your organization is compliant with relevant data privacy regulations. Our Microsoft, Cloud, and Data Privacy experts will work alongside you to understand regulatory risks within your environments and remediate them through Purview’s data, compliance, and governance capabilities.
- Expertise in Cloud Security and Threat Protection with Microsoft Purview: As one of Microsoft’s leading cybersecurity partners, our team are designated solution partners for Security. We hold specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection and have extensive experience in deploying Purview for some of the UK’s largest and most highly regulated organizations.
The Benefits of Purview
Our team will help you deploy Microsoft Purview quickly and effectively, so you enjoy the following benefits.
Identify Risks to Your Data
Assess your current data privacy programme for any ongoing risks.
Identify Risky User Behaviour
Identify any user behaviour that risks non-compliance or a data breach.
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Achieve Best Practice for Data Protection
Meet relevant requirements for regulatory compliance and industry best practice.
Ease the Pressure on Your Security Team
Our SOC team will take on responsibilities from your in-house security team, allowing them to dedicate time and resources to other activities.
In 2022, one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies was looking for a cybersecurity partner to help them integrate a recent acquisition. Our customer had recently purchased a business which they needed to consolidate with their main business within a short time span.
Within six months, Bridewell was able to securely integrate the acquired company’s people, processes and technologies with our customer’s. This addressed a number of security risks and inefficiencies between the two organizations.
The Challenge
After completing the purchase, our customer found the acquired business had a host of unique cyber security processes, procedures, and technologies. To successfully integrate them into their organization, our customer needed to address these differences to create a single, unified approach to security. Beyond enhancing their security, this would also address a number of inefficiencies that come from having disparate processes and technologies.
This project was particularly challenging due to the scale of our customer’s business. With tens of thousands of employees and dozens of security tools, integrating all technology, systems and people required significant skill and resources. While our customer had the capability to undertake this project internally, they were operating at capacity and needed an external provider to support them.
The Solution
Our customer’s main requirement was a partner they could trust with the security of their multi-billion dollar acquisition. Specifically, they needed a cyber security services company with extensive experience securing acquisitions and with relevant certifications (such as CISSP). Having worked with Bridewell on a number of previous projects, our customer chose us to help them with the security integration.
“In a short amount of time, Bridewell quickly came up to speed with our inherited estate. They took total ownership of responsibilities and documented the current state of the portfolio from a digital security perspective. They worked closely with our key stakeholders across business units and quickly pivoted to help on new workstreams.”
- Senior Project Manager
Once we began the project with our customer, we catalogued all personal systems and data that they would be inheriting. From here, we assessed the risk of each individual application, system, and data set and tested for vulnerabilities. As part of this project, we reviewed over 50 different applications. Any vulnerabilities we identified were then flagged and remediated.
Beyond this, we also determined future data and application ownership to set up our customer for continued success in managing ongoing cybersecurity risk after the project. We also took full responsibility for overseeing the migration and integration of data from the acquired business, reporting any risks to senior leadership. Given the scale and sensitivity of the project, we were constantly engaged with relevant stakeholders to appraise them of any risks we identified.
The Results
Having now completed the integration, our customer benefits from greater visibility across their estate and reduced risk. They’ve also benefited from consolidating their technologies and processes across the two organizations, which has reduced costs and increased efficiency.
Completing the project on time was a specific highlight for the customer, who wanted the acquired business to be integrated within the six-month time frame. Having achieved this, our customer was satisfied with our work and is still working with us to help them reduce overall risk in relevant departments.
Start your Microsoft Purview Journey with Bridewell
Speak with one of our consultants to see how we can support your organization with Microsoft Purview.
How it Works
Data governance isn’t just about technology, but how organizations use, process and secure data. Our Purview deployments prioritize understanding how your employees handle data so we can implement policies that support their ways of working.
Data Discovery
Our cloud security and data privacy teams will hold discovery workshops to understand:
- Your current approach to data classification, retention and data loss
- Any challenges with how your users access and share data
- Your goals with Purview
Our team will review your current approach against applicable data protection legislation and best practice standards.
Any areas of non-compliance or data risk will be highlighted immediately.
Design and Implementation
Based on our findings, we will recommend updates to relevant policies and provide a test deployment of our proposed labelling solution to address these shortcomings.
This test deployment ensures there is no risk to your current operations and allows our team to optimize your Purview deployment before it is moved to a live environment.
Why Us?
180+ Security Specialists
Our team have diverse experience across sectors and disciplines, and hold accreditations from numerous industry bodies.
Certifications
Our people and services are highly accredited by leading industry bodies including CREST, the NCSC, and more. Our SOC holds extensive accreditations from CREST (including for CSIR and SOC2) and works closely with our cyber consultancy services.
Partnerships
As a Microsoft Partner, we also hold advanced specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection. We’ve also implemented some of the UK’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Security stack, inc. Sentinel, Defender, Purview and more.
