M365 tenant admins beware: Copilot and user self-service purchases are enabled by default
Is your organisation at risk from unmanaged Microsoft 365 Copilot (and other products) access with user-controlled self-service trials and purchases? Microsoft 365 Copilot offers powerful AI-driven productivity enhancements, but if it’s adopted through self-service trials and purchases, it can expose your organisation to unapproved spend, data governance gaps, and compliance risks with potentially hefty consequences.…
Managing AI data risk with Microsoft Purview
As the world gets to grips with the adoption and understanding of AI assistant technologies, from a business perspective, the practicalities and risks also need consideration, with an appropriate strategy in place. Some of the key questions include – This post explores Microsoft Purview’s Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI capabilities. Whilst it’s a…
Planning a Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration: Key Questions
Migrating from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another is rarely a simple ask. It often involves complex considerations across workloads, identities, devices, applications, user experience, and more. Success starts with asking the right questions early and building a strategy that aligns with organisational needs. This post outlines some of the important questions to consider during…
M365 Compliance – Cyber Essentials, NIS2, ISO 27001, CIS
What is Compliance Manager? Compliance Manager is a Microsoft Purview feature that evaluates and reports on tenant configuration, showing areas that need to be fixed to meet the standards or requirements of specific industries, regional areas, or accreditations. A collection of assessment templates for different industries, accreditations, regions and countries are available and used to…
Intune Suite
The ‘Microsoft Intune Suite’ plan is a comprehensive set of enhanced features available separately to the standard Intune Plan 1 and Plan 2 offerings and includes features such as remote assistance, application management and cloud PKI. Although an additional cost, the features enable further vendor consolidation opportunities, streamlined integration and management, and improvements to existing…
OneDrive for Business – Version History
Understanding the OneDrive version history feature can prevent uncertainty around data loss when working on files, or avoid spending unnecessary amounts of time trying to undo or fix formatting and content issues. Often a simple few clicks can restore the file to a previous version/point in time which will result in the same or better…
Troubleshooting Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Windows
It can be tricky to obtain information about the status of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint clients if they are not behaving as expected. The ‘Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Client Analyzer’ (MDECA) tool addresses this issue by providing a quick to run, and easy to read report in HTML format, alongside a compilation of relevant event…
Insider Risk Management
What is Insider Risk Management? Insider Risk Management is a compliance feature within Microsoft Purview designed to minimise and audit the risk of internal, potentially malicious, risky behaviour such as an employee who is leaving the organisation copying corporate data to public or personal locations. The intent itself may not be malicious, it may just…
AAD MFA – Number Matching
What is it? Number matching with MFA is a feature in Azure AD which is currently in public preview that provides enhanced MFA push notifications with an aim of ensuring focused validation of an MFA challenge. Since MFA has become a familiar process for users, there can be instances where complacency may lead to unintended…
OneDrive Document Scanning
What is it? The OneDrive mobile app can be used to scan documents, whiteboards, business cards and photos. Features include intelligent capture, for example when you select to scan a business card or document, it is specifically looking for an area within the frame that is likely rectangular in shape, and additional editing options. Compared…
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