Start with Microsoft Purview. Finish Everywhere with the Infotechtion-ARM.
Microsoft 365 is now fully embraced by most organizations as the primary platform for collaboration and productivity. Microsoft Purview plays a critical role in securing this environment by protecting information stored in Microsoft 365 and shared from it—using classification, sensitivity labels, encryption, and data loss prevention to control access, external sharing, and usage. For data created, stored, […]
Stop Treating Microsoft Purview Like a Project
Treating Purview like a one-off implementation—plan, deploy, hand over—produces one-off results. Data grows, risks shift, new controls and regulations appear, and the organization changes. The only way to keep value and risk reduction moving in the right direction is to run Purview as a service, governed by a clear Target Operating Model (TOM). This post […]
Cut SharePoint Storage Costs
Are you struggling to control the rising costs of your SharePoint storage? 60% of M365 customers surveyed by Infotechtion are paying premium rates ($0.20 /GB /month) for hot-tier storage — even for data that’s stale, redundant, or no longer relevant. But deletion isn’t always an option due to compliance, ownership, ambiguity, or business hesitation. That’s […]
How to avoid data breaches
Data breaches rarely happen the same way twice. Some are driven by malicious insiders, others by external hackers, careless employees, or even well-intentioned staff experimenting with new AI tools. What they all have in common: the cost to the business can be devastating. Below are four real-world style scenarios that show how breaches often occur […]
Turning Audit Pain into Audit Readiness: How to Simplify Compliance
IT security audits are meant to validate that an organization’s information assets are secure and compliant. Regulators, boards, and customers expect assurance that risks are managed against standards and regulations such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST SP 800-171/53, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. For CISOs, audits should showcase security maturity. Instead, they often become a repetitive, […]
Securing Data in the Age of AI: Outcomes of Implementing Microsoft Purview and the Infotechtion-ARM Solution to embrace and extend Purview
Data is the lifeblood of modern organizations—and one of the biggest targets for cybercriminals, insiders, and supply chain vulnerabilities. Sensitive information exists everywhere: in emails, collaboration platforms, cloud storage, legacy file shares, and increasingly in AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot. The challenge is not only knowing where sensitive data is, but also ensuring it is […]
How Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Helps You Stay Ahead of Internal Threats
In today’s hybrid work environment, where sensitive data flows across devices, apps, and geographies, insider risks have become one of the most complex and costly threats to manage. According to Microsoft research, insider incidents account for 20% of data breaches and cost organizations an average of $7.5 million per incident. Worse, they take an average […]
Security and Governance for AI: Building a Resilient Future
Protecting and Governing AI with Microsoft Solutions Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries across the globe, yet its rise brings critical challenges in security and governance that organizations must address proactively. Understanding the risks, implementing robust safeguards, and embracing a Zero Trust strategy are pivotal steps in leveraging AI effectively while mitigating vulnerabilities. Generative AI: […]
An Information Asset Catalog: Why Now?
It’s 2025, and most every organization over a few hundred people likely has a Records Retention Schedule. It may have even been extended to include Non-Records, and their related retention and disposition requirements. Most organizations will also have an enterprise architecture management system – a system that stores the applications the organization utilizes. And, more […]
Automatic classification of files and emails in Microsoft 365 using Microsoft Purview or SharePoint Premium
Employees are usually too busy to care about compliance. We need to automate security and governance as best as possible, and I will in this blog post outline ways to automate data classification in Microsoft 365 to ensure data security and governance. This is for auto-applying sensitivity labels to secure sensitive files and emails and […]
