Microsoft has launched Privacy Management for Microsoft 365, a new tool designed to enable customers to protect their personal data and build a privacy-resilient workplace.
In multiple blogs, the company cited the fluidity of hybrid work and the merging of work and personal activities, which is leading to more personal data being generated, creating additional cyber risk.
Because of those concerns, Microsoft has released Privacy Management for Microsoft 365, a tool that allows organizations to identify critical privacy risks and conflicts, automate privacy operations and respond to subject rights requests and empower employees to make smart data handling decisions, according to the company.
“With role-based access controls and data de-identified by default, Privacy Management for Microsoft 365 helps organizations to have end-to-end visibility of privacy risks at scale in an automated way,” wrote Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’ corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity.
The tool automatically and continuously discovers personal data in customers’ Microsoft 365 environments by leveraging data classification and user mapping intelligence, enabling…
