Secure Unstructured Data in Microsoft 365 Before Copilot Surfaces It
Watch a high-stakes executive briefing on the critical data exposure lurking in your SharePoint and OneDrive.
- Type: Events
- Date: 02/06/2025
- Author: Alistair Jones
- Tags: Data Governance, AI Readiness, Data Classification
Watch the Recording to Walk Away With:
A classification-first framework to secure unstructured data at scale.
Clear visibility into entitlement risk across SharePoint and OneDrive.
A practical path to enforcement, without hitting licensing roadblocks.
Meet the Speaker
An engineer and security expert, Alistair has worked closely with Fortune 500 enterprises and highly regulated institutions to help secure unstructured data across Microsoft 365. In this session, he shares practical insights from the field, not theory.
What You’ll Learn
- How Copilot changes the risk landscape for unstructured data
- Where sensitivity labels and traditional controls fall short
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A working model for:
- Data Access Governance (DAG)
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
- Enforcement at scale across both E3 and E5 environments
Why does this matter now? Because the tools you rely on to store and share files weren’t designed to secure them
SharePoint and OneDrive Built to Share, Not to Secure
By default, these tools prioritize access over protection. Files meant for limited use often end up exposed to entire departments, business units, or even the whole company.
Now, with Microsoft Copilot, that exposure becomes instant.
One AI prompt can surface forgotten files, sensitive or not, based purely on access.
Did you know? According to Gartner, almost 60% of organizations say oversharing, data loss and content sprawl are among the biggest risks in their Microsoft 365 environments.
Even when using Microsoft’s own stack, teams hit unexpected friction.
Purview’s Unseen Costs and Compliance Risks
Microsoft positions Purview as the built-in solution but auto-labeling and advanced protections require licensing that most teams underestimate.
To enable automatic sensitivity labeling, every user typically needs an E5-level license. For an organization of 5,000 employees, that’s an annual cost of $540,000 to $1.6 million, depending on your base plan.
In the session, you’ll see how to take control without triggering unnecessary upgrades or delays.
Data Access Governance (DAG): A clear view of who has access to what, and where permissions need to be reduced
Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Applying protection policies based on real file content, not just file location or guesswork
A closed-loop workflow that scales across both E3 and E5 environments
