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.
Ventient Energy is a pan-European renewable energy business and the largest independent generator of onshore wind energy in Europe. Trading since 2017, Ventient’s main goals are securing their network, protecting their people, and ensuring the safe and continued generation of energy across Europe.
To achieve this, Ventient sought out a security partner to support their current team by providing 24/7 managed security services.
The Challenge
As a leading energy supplier, Ventient recognise the importance of cyber security within their organisation. Before working with Bridewell, they already had a mature security function and had implemented processes to continuously audit and improve their security. However, with the growing risk of ransomware, they wanted to take further steps to mitigate the risk of a cyber security incident.
With these considerations in mind, Ventient sought out a cyber security services company to support their existing security function with 24/7 managed detection and response. By working in collaboration with an experienced team of security professionals who could support and monitor their systems 24/7, Ventient would be able to focus on potential vulnerabilities, raising awareness of cyber security and training their staff to spot the common techniques used by malicious actors.
For Ventient, it was critical that whichever cyber security partner they chose would not just monitor their systems but would be just as invested in cyber security as they are.
"We wanted a security partner, and not just a company who would monitor our systems; we wanted someone who had as much invested in our security as we do." Chris Lawrence Group IT Security Manager
The Solution
In searching for the right security partner, Ventient began looking at different security companies across the market. Above all, they were looking for someone with experience in cyber security who would go above and beyond to help them on their journey to security maturity. Their main evaluation criteria was that their partner would take the security of Ventient Energy as seriously as they do.
During this review process, they discovered Bridewell and thought they would be an ideal partner due to their experience, skills and drive to work with Ventient. In particular, they were impressed with Bridewell’s willingness to act as partners throughout their cyber security journey and not just to ‘act as IT support’.
After discussing Ventient’s specific cyber security goals and requirements, Bridewell provided the company with 24/7 Managed Detection and Response. This began with a brief for Ventient’s executive board on the wider threat landscape relating to ransomware and an assessment of their detection and reponse weaknesses. These insights were used to deliver an MDR service that reflected the current maturity of their detection and response capabilities.
The service is also supported with ongoing cyber threat intelligence to ensure their posture is continually updated based upon the changing attacker landscape. Bridewell also integrated their existing EDR solutions into the service, so they could maximise their investments Bridewell also provided additional support and advice for a number of Ventient’s other security projects. During this process, the Bridewell team worked closely with Ventient to onboard and properly configure many of their security systems into a single central system.
The Results
Since working with Bridewell, Ventient have been able to centralise and unify their security systems to monitor and react to alerts in real time. Working with Bridewell has also allowed Ventient to take a more proactive approach to cyber security where they can respond to threat intelligence and information they receive about their industry.
Since beginning work with Bridewell, Ventient now have increased visibility and the ability to rapidly detect and respond to threats, with a service that continually evolves in line with threat actor behaviour.
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.
