Microsoft Purview governance
Secure and govern your data with clarity and control.
As institutions adopt cloud services and AI-driven tools, data is increasingly distributed across users, devices, and platforms. Without clear visibility and control, this can create risks around data loss, compliance, and misuse.
Data is now one of your most critical institutional assets — but many organisations lack a consistent approach to classifying, protecting, and governing it. This can lead to regulatory exposure, increased cyber risk, and reduced confidence in how data is used.
We provide expert support to help you design and implement a unified approach to data security, governance and compliance using Microsoft Purview - giving you a clear, consistent foundation for managing data across its lifecycle.
Benefits
This service is designed to give you visibility, control, and protection across your data estate, while supporting compliance and reducing risk.
- Gain visibility of your data estate: understand where your data lives, how it is used, and where risks exist across your environment
- Protect sensitive information: implement classification, labelling, and protection policies to safeguard critical data
- Reduce risk of data loss and misuse: prevent accidental or intentional data leakage across applications, devices, and users
- Support compliance and regulatory requirements: align your data controls with UK regulations and institutional governance needs
What the service covers
The service focuses on planning, design, and initial implementation of core data governance and protection capabilities.
Data discovery and assessment
- Identification of sensitive and high-risk data
- Review of current data handling practices
- Assessment of governance and compliance gaps
- Identification of sensitive and high-risk data
- Review of current data handling practices
- Assessment of governance and compliance gaps
Information protection and classification
- Sensitivity labelling strategy and configuration
- Data classification policies
- Protection controls across Microsoft 365 services
- Sensitivity labelling strategy and configuration
- Data classification policies
- Protection controls across Microsoft 365 services
Data loss prevention (DLP)
- DLP policy design and implementation
- Protection across email, endpoints, and cloud services
- Monitoring and alerting for data risk events
- DLP policy design and implementation
- Protection across email, endpoints, and cloud services
- Monitoring and alerting for data risk events
Insider risk and compliance controls
- Insider risk management configuration
- Compliance policy alignment
- Support for audit and investigation capabilities
- Insider risk management configuration
- Compliance policy alignment
- Support for audit and investigation capabilities
Data governance foundations
- Data mapping and visibility approach
- Guidance on data ownership and lifecycle management
- Alignment with institutional governance frameworks
- Data mapping and visibility approach
- Guidance on data ownership and lifecycle management
- Alignment with institutional governance frameworks
Delivery and knowledge transfer
- Workshops to define policies and priorities
- Guided implementation and configuration
- Documentation and handover to internal teams
- Workshops to define policies and priorities
- Guided implementation and configuration
- Documentation and handover to internal teams
How to buy and get support
Our services are available through G-Cloud and other approved public-sector procurement routes.
Your relationship manager can help define the right scope based on your institution’s data, risk, and compliance priorities.
Ready to strengthen your data governance?
Contact your relationship manager or make a customer enquiry to discuss how we can support your Microsoft Purview implementation.