SharePoint offers options for collecting activity which may prove useful for many different reasons. Whether that reason is for security auditing or fulfilling other compliance requirements, in order to make use of it – it must be turned on and you need to know what you are looking for. The purpose of this blog is […]

Automate the Process of Disposing of Data With GDPR now in effect, organizations are legally required to remove personal data once its purpose for processing has been met. In March of 2019 a Danish Taxi company, Taxa 4×35, was fined $180,000 for failing to properly dispose of its customer’s personally identifiable data (PII). An audit […]

The penalty for failure to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is up to $22 million or 4% of annual global turnover (whichever is greater). By now most organizations around the globe know that regardless of where they are based, this regulation affects them if they are doing business with EU citizens. Aside from […]

In my last blog post, I covered configuring some of the out of the box data loss prevention policies that Microsoft’s security & compliance center offers. Yet in order to meet the specific needs of your organization, custom information types and DLP policies can be created. In this guide, I will show you how to […]

Data loss is defined as data that gets misplaced, removed without authorization, leaked outside of the organization or otherwise corrupted perhaps due to malware. Failure to prevent data from being ‘lost’ can result in hefty fines, especially for organizations that have to comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) where they can be fined […]

The policy of ‘Data protection by design and by default’ in article 25 of the GDPR is driving vendors like Microsoft to align data security with innovation to not only develop better products but also more secure products. Along these lines organizations should adopt the policy of Privacy by Design, that is, organizational processes that […]