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Establish an effective Microsoft Purview data security baseline

Most organizations have Microsoft Purview data security capabilities deployed. Policies exist, signals surface, and alerts fire. Yet outcomes remain inconsistent. Enforcement decisions stall, exceptions accumulate, and teams cannot say with confidence whether data exposure is actually declining.

The Microsoft Purview Data Security Accelerator establishes a working Purview data security baseline in your environment. In 3 to 6 weeks, we configure one or two selected Purview data security capabilities so your team can begin operating from a clear baseline on day one and continue developing it over time.

Rather than stopping at recommendation, the Accelerator establishes configured Purview capability in the scope that matters most to your organization.

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From configuration to data security decisions

Microsoft Purview can detect sensitive data, apply policy, and surface risk across Microsoft 365 and connected platforms. But many environments stall between configuration and operational control.

Commonly, teams see:

Policies deployed, but alerts that do not reliably drive action

Coverage that lags behind how data actually moves

Severity that does not map cleanly to business risk

Exceptions growing faster than governance

The Microsoft Purview Data Security Accelerator establishes a usable baseline aligned to your data movement, ownership model, and decision workflows, not just platform defaults.

What this Accelerator is

The Microsoft Purview Data Security Accelerator is a 3-to-6-week baseline-establishment engagement.

Scope is explicitly bounded to one or two Purview data security capabilities selected during the sales conversation:

Data Loss Prevention
Data Security Posture Management
Information Protection and classification

The result is:

A working configured Purview baseline in the agreed scope
A baseline your team operates after the engagement concludes
A clean handoff to optional Optimization or internal team ownership

Both zero-start and partial-state customers can be supported when the selected capability scope is feasible within the 3-to-6-week engagement window.

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is out of scope for this Accelerator and is addressed through separate engagement paths.

Why Purview data security efforts often miss

Signal does not translate into decisions

Alerts fire, but teams lack the context or authority to block, warn, allow, remediate, or approve exceptions with confidence.

Coverage does not reflect real data movement

Controls are strong in some surfaces and weak in others, leaving exposure gaps where data actually flows.

Policy and classification drift over time

Sensitive information types, labels, and policies no longer reflect the real data estate.

Exceptions accumulate without governance

Temporary allowances become permanent risk because ownership and review are unclear.

How the Accelerator runs

A structured path to a working baseline

The Microsoft Purview Data Security Accelerator follows a focused Plan → Build → Enable rhythm, scoped strictly to establishing a working baseline.

Milestone

Plan

We define the Purview baseline around the data security decisions your organization needs to make. This includes confirming data movement assumptions, sensitive data priorities, policy intent, exception paths, ownership boundaries, and what block, warn, allow, remediate, or approve should mean in practice.

Milestone

Build

We configure the selected Purview capabilities around enforceable or actionable data security control. Depending on scope, this may include DLP policy configuration, DSPM prioritization, sensitivity label and classification refinement, alert tuning, exception handling patterns, and reporting views for the teams responsible for action.

Milestone

Enable

We hand off the operating pattern for data security decisions. Enablement focuses on how stakeholders interpret signals, handle exceptions, review policy impact, adjust classifications, and continue improving the baseline without turning every exception into permanent exposure.

What you’ll have.

At the end of the Accelerator, your team has:

A working Purview data security baseline in the agreed one-or-two-capability scope

Policy, classification, or DSPM outputs aligned to real data movement and ownership

Clearer handoffs between security, compliance, legal, IT, and business stakeholders where applicable

A starting point for continued improvement without requiring immediate enterprise-scale rollout

What comes after?

For customers who want sustained engineering improvement of the Purview baseline, the follow-on engagement is:

Data Security Optimization

Optimization is optional. Many customers continue developing the Purview baseline internally using the operating pattern established during the Accelerator.

For customers whose needs extend beyond a working baseline in one or two capabilities, such as full data protection and DSPM at enterprise scale, the appropriate engagement is Data Protection & DSPM Deployment.