Global Manufacturing Company Onramps to the Purview Data Protection Highway
Company Overview A global Fortune 500 manufacturing company with facilities and offices across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.ChallengesThe company was evaluating Microsoft Purview E5 licenses to support its information protection, insider risk management, data loss prevention, and sensitivity labeling goals. The data protection team needed to validate the efficacy of the Purview tools when applied to company data within their M365 environment. The data project leader shared a list of use cases to test against the platform’s risk identification and alert capabilities. SolutionLighthouse’s consultants designed and ran a four-month pilot to test Microsoft Purview’s sensitivity labeling, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Insider Risk Management (IRM), and Defender for Cloud Apps capabilities across the client’s live Microsoft 365 environment. The team configured and validated more than 10 distinct data protection policies, including global personal information labels for Exchange, Teams, OneDrive, and endpoint devices. The project included six sensitive information types (such as PII, PCI data, and passport numbers), and piloted risk-based alerts for questionable user and departing employee behavior. Lighthouse developed a detailed Report Card and Recommendations Report, delineating a clear path for full implementation of validated controls company-wide. Key OutcomesDuring the initial four-month engagement, Lighthouse’s experts successfully validated each use case, demonstrating that Microsoft Purview E5 was indeed the correct tool for the client’s data protection needs. The client purchased Purview E5 licenses and engaged Lighthouse to guide the full implementation of all the capabilities we had piloted. By following the guidance of Lighthouse data experts, the company’s data protection team developed an ongoing, flexible data protection strategy and program which mitigated multiple risks by automating data classification, labeling, and user notifications. Lighthouse helped this client accelerate its data protection maturity model and establish best practices, workflows, and classifiers to strengthen data privacy and security. We can do the same for you. Contact an expert to get started.
