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UK Finance
Achieving Data Confidence
How a financial institution gained visibility, control, and compliance with Microsoft Purview
Unified Data Governance
Reduced Risk & Enhanced Compliance
Operational Efficiency & Future Ready Framework
The Customer
UK Finance
Client:
Medium
Size:
United Kingdom
Georgraphy:
The Challenge
The customer, a mid-sized financial institution, needed to strengthen its data protection, governance, and compliance framework to meet evolving regulatory and internal audit requirements.
Although Microsoft 365 was already in use across the business, the organisation lacked a unified strategy for data lifecycle management, insider risk control, and regulatory reporting. Sensitive data was dispersed across Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange, and there was no consistent application of retention or information protection policies.
The customer needed an end-to-end design and roadmap for Microsoft Purview that would deliver measurable compliance, data visibility, and risk reduction — while ensuring user productivity was not compromised.
Key Activities
High-Level Design Workshop
Compliance Requirements Analysis
Purview Architecture Design
Implementation Checkpoint Workshops
Compliance Validation Review
Enable DSPM
Technologies
Microsoft Purview
Defender For Cloud Apps
Entra ID
M365 DLP
The Solution
Venture 1 Consulting delivered a structured, three-phase engagement — High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, and Implementation Checkpoint Review — to help the customer implement Microsoft Purview effectively.
High-Level Design:
Developed a comprehensive architectural design outlining the organization’s compliance objectives, existing risks, and regulatory obligations.
Defined an integrated solution design across Purview capabilities including Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Information Protection, Retention Policies, eDiscovery, Defender for Cloud Apps, and the Purview Data Catalogue.
Ensured every design decision directly mapped to a business or compliance requirement, achieving board-level confidence in regulatory alignment.
Low-Level Design:
Produced a detailed configuration and implementation blueprint mapping control objectives to specific Purview policies and tenant settings.
Sequenced the rollout of features to minimize disruption and allow staged user adoption.
Conducted review sessions with customer stakeholders to refine policies before live deployment.
Implementation Checkpoint Review:
Facilitated workshops to review rollout progress, validate policy effectiveness, and measure compliance outcomes.
Provided assurance that all Purview feature areas were delivering against expected data protection and governance standards.
Offered advisory support to optimize tuning and policy adjustments as the customer’s data maturity evolved.
Benefits & Results Derived
Improved Compliance Confidence: With a clear governance framework established, policies can be mapped directly to UK financial regulatory requirements.
Enhanced Data Visibility: Centralised insights provide visibility into data usage, classification, and risk across Microsoft 365 workloads.
Reduced Risk Exposure: Proactive insider risk detection and DLP controls help minimise the potential for data leaks or misuse.
Operational Efficiency: Automated retention, labelling, and reporting reduce manual compliance workloads for IT and compliance teams.
Future-Ready Framework: A modular design supports ongoing Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), enabling continuous improvement in data visibility and compliance posture.
Strengthened Collaboration: Closer alignment between IT and compliance teams promotes proactive governance and greater confidence in managing data protection challenges.
Sustained Optimisation: Ongoing strategic guidance ensures Purview capabilities evolve alongside the organisation’s data landscape.