Microsoft Purview Implementation Services
Maximize ROI for Your Enterprise Purview Deployment
Purview is a compliance, governance, security, and eDiscovery tool, so cross-departmental collaboration is imperative to optimize, maximize, and manage your investment in it.
Lighthouse’s team of legal, IT, information security, risk, and compliance experts collaborate to guide your organization from assessment through customized deployment of Purview, and provide ongoing maintenance of the app and related Microsoft 365 tools.
Improve Compliance and Risk Management
Develop Optimized eDiscovery Workflows
Drive Higher Internal Adoption of Purview and Associated Tools
Purview Power, Lighthouse Know-How
Partnering with Lighthouse to implement Purview in your organization means harnessing the strength and breadth of Purview’s data security and compliance features.
Better Data Security
- Data Loss Prevention
- Information Barriers
- Information Protection
- Insider Risk Management
- Privileged Access Management
Comprehensive Data Governance
- Data Mapping
- Data Cataloging
Risk & Compliance
- eDiscovery & Audit
- Compliance Manager
- Communication Compliance
- Data Lifecycle Management
Microsoft Engagements in the Past Three Years
Years of Combined Experience in Security, Governance, Risk, and eDiscovery
Years of Strategic Partnership with Microsoft
Recognized Results
The passion and dedication of our teams deliver outstanding results for our clients. We’re proud that these efforts have been recognized by industry groups, partners, and prestigious reviewers.
Microsoft Expertise
Lighthouse delivers technology and workflow expertise across eDiscovery, information governance, records management, security, legal, compliance, and privacy within the Microsoft Purview platform, M365 Copilot, and M365 Security Copilot.
Assessment
In-Depth Analysis and Strategic Insights
Successful deployment of any technology requires understanding the enterprise environment, locating potential gaps in coverage, and building the intelligence to develop a framework for success. The same is true for ensuring your Microsoft 365 Copilot capabilities are as compliant and secure as possible.
Microsoft 365 Environment Scan
Our Assessment phase begins with a thorough Microsoft 365 Environment Scan, a critical step in identifying potential risks associated with sensitive and confidential information. This scan assesses the following:
- Sensitive Data Identification: Pinpoint sensitive and confidential information within your Microsoft 365 environment to better protect it from misuse or harm.
- Legacy Data Analysis: Identify legacy data that may be eligible for deletion, thus reducing data bloat and minimizing risk.
Data Visualization and Gap Analysis
The data collected during the Environment Scan is then transformed into clear, actionable insights that are easy to digest, report on, and build your action plan around:
- Data Visualization: We provide detailed visual representations of your data landscape, highlighting areas of concern and potential vulnerabilities.
- Gap Analysis: Our experts conduct a thorough gap analysis to identify discrepancies between your current data management practices and industry best practices. This analysis highlights areas requiring immediate attention to mitigate risks.
Legal & Compliance Deployment Guide
Upon completion of the Environment Scan and Gap Analysis, we deliver a comprehensive Legal & Compliance Deployment Guide for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This guide includes:
- Detailed Findings: A thorough breakdown of the Environment Scan results and identified risks.
- Actionable Recommendations: Specific, actionable steps to address identified gaps and enhance compliance and security.
- Strategic Roadmap: A high-level strategic roadmap for deploying Microsoft 365 Copilot within your organization, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance
Implementation Framework
Tailored Solutions for Seamless Integration
Building on the insights gained during the Assessment phase, our Implementation Framework offers a strategic roadmap for deploying Microsoft Purview technology:
High-Level Design and Planning
- Customized High-level Design: We develop a high-level design tailored to your organization’s unique requirements, ensuring that Microsoft 365 Copilot is integrated seamlessly and securely.
- Strategic Planning: Our experts provide strategic planning services to align the implementation with your business objectives and compliance requirements.
Use Case Testing and Configuration
- Use Case Testing: Rigorous testing of various scenarios ensures that Microsoft 365 Copilot meets your organization's compliance and security needs. We simulate real-world use cases to identify potential issues and address them proactively.
- Purview Configuration Guidance: We offer expert guidance on configuring Microsoft Purview to meet the specific requirements of your use cases, ensuring optimal performance and compliance.
Governance Assist
Continuous Support for Evolving Challenges
The Governance Assist offering provides ongoing support to help your organization adapt to the dynamic landscape of regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements. Our services include:
Continuous Insights and Guidance
- Regulatory Updates: We keep you informed of the latest regulatory developments that impact your use of Microsoft 365 Copilot, ensuring you remain compliant and confident in your implementation well after launch.
- Purview Capabilities: Our experts provide continuous insights into new Purview capabilities, helping you leverage the latest features to enhance compliance and security.
Customized Dashboards and Monitoring
- Dashboard Creation: We create customized dashboards using a combination of Microsoft 365 and Azure services, providing easy monitoring of client-specific sensitive data.
- Ongoing Monitoring: Our team offers ongoing monitoring and support to ensure that your data management practices remain compliant with evolving regulations and industry standards.
Assessment
In-Depth Analysis and Strategic Insights
Successful deployment of any technology requires understanding the enterprise environment, locating potential gaps in coverage, and building the intelligence to develop a framework for success.
Implementation Framework
Tailored Solutions for Seamless Integration
Building on the insights gained during the Assessment phase, our Implementation Framework offers a strategic roadmap for deploying Microsoft Purview technology.
Governance Assist
Continuous Support for Evolving Challenges
The Governance Assist offering provides ongoing support to help your organization adapt to the dynamic landscape of regulatory, legal, and compliance requirements.
Comprehensive Evaluation and Expert Guidance
Get the most from your Purview investment by configuring it for Security, DLP, eDiscovery, Compliance, Privacy, and so much more.
Our M365 deployment experts collaborate with key stakeholders to identify their needs, assess your system, then develop a deployment framework that meets these diverse requirements while mitigating risk. Our ongoing governance services support you throughout your data lifecycle.
- Locate sensitive and confidential information.
- Lighthouse’s proprietary scanning scripts and pre-defined queries identify risks in unstructured data and our experts assess the situation.
- View your data landscape with a focus on potential vulnerabilities.
- Our proprietary dashboard is unique to the Microsoft partner ecosystem.
- Receive recommendations for Purview use cases based on organization-wide and department-specific tasks.
- Our consultants collaborate with stakeholders to capture business needs and merge that information with the scan results to develop clear project requirements.
We deliver an actionable implementation roadmap customized to your organization’s data life cycle and goals.
- Our consultants design dynamic workflows, processes, and automations powered by M365 Purview.
- Data Security
- eDiscovery
- Data Governance
- Records Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Privacy
- Accelerate adoption to ensure consistency across the organization
- Once the configuration plan is clearly defined, our M365 Purview consultants guide your IT team through implementation. This collaboration leaves your team with the knowledge they need as the system owners.
Microsoft is constantly updating and improving M365 Purview. The Lighthouse team tracks and analyzes the updates to inform your ongoing efforts to utilize the latest governance technologies.
- Establish baseline processes and identify a steering committee to perform ongoing maintenance.
- Receive monthly one-on-one guidance from Lighthouse M365 experts to maintain eDiscovery workflow integrity.
- Gain access to Lighthouse's online portal for M365 release updates impacing eDiscovery
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— CISO at National Insurance Giant
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FAQs
Is M365 or Purview 17a-4 compliant?
Yes, if a client has appropriate licensing, and the system is configured properly.
Can Purview be used to collect meeting recordings and transcripts?
Yes, as of October 2024, meeting recordings and transcripts are stored in the meeting organizer's OneDrive (previously, they were stored in the Exchange account of the user who enabled the recording).
Should regulated companies enable meeting recording and transcription features within M365?
The decision to enable recording and transcription features (or any feature within the M365 platform) should account for the business, legal, and regulatory requirements. For recordings and transcription specifically, the business need should be weighed against the information governance and eDiscovery implications, where the volume of data generated and need to preserve and collect the data will increase. Any costs and risks should also be evaluated against risk mitigation options, including for example, options for retention and deletion of data once it is no longer needed.
Can you archive cloud attachments to a third-party tool (e.g., Smarsh, Proofpoint)?
The ability to archive attachments (either last version or the contemporaneous version) will depend upon many factors, including the capabilities of the source system to retain, collect, and export those attachments (which is driven by licensing and configuration) and the capabilities of the archival system.
What are common message archiving problems with Teams and Exchange?
(1) The archiving of cloud attachments, the capabilities for which will depend on the source system and archiving system (per the above).
(2) Challenges archiving certain features contained within the communication, such as emojis, likes/dislikes, etc. Modern communications are "feature rich" but the ability to collect, export, ingest and manage many of these features is limited.
Can you ingest third-party chats (e.g., Bloomberg) into Purview for archival purposes?
Yes, Microsoft offers an API for many third-party communication tools. These are available in the Purview Portal.
Can M365 or Purview serve as the system-of-record for Microsoft email and chat (e.g., Teams, Outlook)?
Yes, if the company has the appropriate licensing to support its business, legal and regulatory requirements, and the system is configured properly, it can.
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