18May
17Dec
The many ways to prevent data leakage in Microsoft 365
Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Windows Information Protection (aka Endpoint DLP), Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions, Conditional Access App Control with Microsoft Cloud App security, Sensitivity labels, Retention labels--are you thoroughly confused yet? All of the above can help you to prevent the leakage of sensitive data under certain...
08Aug
Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? More like considerations… Part 1: External sharing and communication
This article is part of a series. Also see Part 2, Part 3. Ever since I released the Office 365 Email Security Checklist, I have had a lot of people asking me for similar best practices checklists related to the "other" Office 365 services--especially Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. The...
11Jun
Question from a reader: Compliance and Office 365
I have great readers, asking great questions. Recently, I received this one: Do you think you can do an article on HIPAA compliance and the types of licenses needed? My situation is I am the admin and have an E3 license and all of the other employees have a Business Premium...
27Dec
How to use DLP to automatically file HIPAA incident reports in Microsoft 365
I have previously written about Data Loss Prevention (DLP) on this site, and today I am going to demonstrate another important use of this technology in helping to meet certain compliance requirements for HIPAA.* You can also apply this process to other sensitive information types, where incident reports are recommended,...
13Sep
Configuring Data Loss Prevention (DLP): An example automatically encrypting GLBA content via Email
If you have a subscription such as Microsoft 365 Business or Office 365 E3, then you can configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, which are great tools for helping your organization meet compliance standards. I especially recommend it for businesses in the financial or medical industries, due to laws and...
08Mar