IT security: An opportunity to raise corporate governance scores

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Corporate Governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. Governance frameworks now incorporate aspects of IT security. Communicating the security message in ways that impact a company’s governance score is important to getting attention and investment from corporate leadership. This post examines a leading governance framework from Institutional Shareholder Services, Governance QualityScore, and the specifics of how IT security can increase a company’s score.

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Discover 5 lessons Microsoft has learned about compliance management

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Just like our customers, Microsoft has been on a compliance journey. Here’s what we’ve learned about the most effective mindset and tools to manage compliance.

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How Microsoft Purview and Priva support the partner ecosystem

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery. With the new Microsoft Purview eDiscovery APIs, partners and customers can leverage automation to streamline common, repetitive workflows that require a lot of manual effort in the product experience.

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How Microsoft Security partners are helping customers do more with less

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft Security partner opportunity grew 21 percent year-over-year, particularly in Microsoft 365 security, cloud security, compliance, and identity. Microsoft Security partners are expanding their existing offerings and creating new offerings in all these areas, packaging their unique experience, expertise, and IP for effective and efficient service delivery.

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KuppingerCole rates Microsoft as outstanding in functionality for secure collaboration

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000

We are excited to share that Microsoft has been rated Outstanding in Functionality in the May 2022 KuppingerCole Market Compass for Secure Collaboration. Microsoft was also the only company to be awarded the highest possible score of Strong Positive in all five categories.

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4 breakthrough ideas for compliance and data security

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Learn how Zero Trust and other data protection strategies can help you overcome four key challenges in compliance management and data governance.

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How to improve risk management using Zero Trust architecture

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Risk management plays a critical role in helping organizations with their security posture enhancement. Taking insider incidents as an example, they are not only costly to organizations but also time-consuming to be contained. As such, the ROI is maximized in effectively protecting the organizations’ assets as well as ensuring their business operations. Risk management is an ongoing activity. Are the long-established risk management programs in the enterprises staying on top of the evolving digital and threat landscapes?

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So you want to be a CISO: What you should know about data protection

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Learn how insider threats, data siloes, and shifting responsibilities are all affecting data management—and how security professionals can diminish risks to the organization.

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Google responds to EU data rulings with new Workspace controls

Credit to Author: Charlotte Trueman| Date: Wed, 04 May 2022 04:22:00 -0700

Google Cloud has announced a new set of Sovereign Controls for users of its Workspace productivity software, aimed at allowing organizations in both the public and private sector to better control, limit, and monitor data transfers to and from the European Union.

The changes look to have come in response to a range of recent European Union efforts to better protect the personal data of members when using cloud services, following the collapse of Privacy Shield.

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The future of compliance and data governance is here: Introducing Microsoft Purview

Credit to Author: Emma Jones| Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Hybrid work has connected us in ways unimaginable just two years ago. Today we routinely communicate across continents while collaborating in real-time. Protecting a decentralized hybrid work environment requires strong solutions built around clear principles designed to defend customers’ data, safeguard employees, and protect the business.

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