What my WorkIQ Persona Sketch taught me about Data Governance

Like most people who have spent years working in data, governance and technology, I am occasionally asked a surprisingly difficult question....

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AI is Forcing Organisations to ask Data Governance questions they have avoided for years

When organisations begin exploring generative AI, the early conversations are usually focused on technology. Attention naturally turns towar...

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Use Microsoft Purview to manage data security & compliance for Anthropic Claude (Enterprise)

Use Microsoft Purview to help you protect and manage data security and compliance protections for Anthropic Claude (Enterprise).

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Why Fellowship Matters when Championing Data, AI, and Community Leadership

Reaching a milestone in one’s career is always an opportunity for reflection. Looking back on my journey as a Fellow of the British Computer...

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Cabinet Level AI and How Britain’s Strategic Shift Changes the Data & AI Governance Landscape

The elevation of the Artificial Intelligence portfolio into the UK Cabinet marks a defining moment in British technology policy. With Kanish...

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What's new in Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview helps you stay on top of the ever-changing data governance, data security, and risk and compliance areas. Find out what we've been up to this month and what's planned for Microsoft…

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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Knowing When Data Should No Longer Exist

Organizations rarely have to justify why they kept data. They are much more often challenged on what they can do with it once they've kept i...

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AI Governance is a Hollow Framework Without Data Governance

The Hard Truth: We are trying to govern the outputs of frontier AI without establishing strict control over the inputs. Imagine a near-futu...

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery: When Evidence Becomes Action

Organizations spend a great deal of time building controls, writing policies, and collecting audit data. Most of it sits quietly in the back...

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery: When Evidence Becomes Action

Organizations spend a great deal of time building controls, writing policies, and collecting audit data. Most of it sits quietly in the back...

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance: When the Risk Is in the Conversation

Not all corporate risk shows up quietly in the structured data footprint and s ometimes, it manifests in how people talk to each other. It l...

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Secretary-General's remarks to the opening of the first Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance [as delivered]

Excellencies, distinguished delegates, dear friends,Artificial intelligence is advancing at runaway speed. A technology that can reshape economies, transform the world of work, sway elections, and til...

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Microsoft Purview DSPM: Unmasking Your True Data Risks

The Reality: You can’t protect what you can’t see and most organizations see far less than they think they do. When data security fails, th...

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: When Data Movement Becomes Behaviour

Not all risk originates outside the organization and that is where data security gets complicated. Traditional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) st...

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention: Where Classification Becomes Control

The Reality: Policies don’t protect data what happens in the moment does. Corporate policies outline how data should be handled and look c...

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Microsoft Purview DSPM: Unmasking Your True Data Risks

The Reality: You can’t protect what you can’t see and most organizations see far less than they think they do. When data security fails, th...

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Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations: When Alerts Become Evidence

The Reality: An alert tells you something happened, it doesn’t tell you what it means, and very few organizations can actually prove the f...

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Microsoft Purview Information Barriers: Controlling Who Can Work With What

The Reality: Most organizations rely on policy to dictate how people should collaborate. But collaboration tools are designed to break down...

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Microsoft Purview Information Protection: The Control Most Organizations Think They Already Have

The Reality: Most organizations think they have data classification in place. Very few have it working as a system. Step into almost any en...

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The Reality of Data Security in M365 (Purview Protection)

Data security has traditionally been viewed as a problem of access. Who can see what. Who can download it. Who can share it. In a world of s...

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Microsoft Purview Security Tooling Blog Series

The biggest data security risk in Microsoft 365 isn't external attackers. It's the controls you think you've already implemented. Most organ...

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Microsoft Build 2026: The Moment Governance Became the Bottleneck, Not Innovation

If last year’s narrative was about what AI can do , Microsoft Build 2026 marked a noticeable shift: the conversation has moved firmly to wha...

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