Managing sensitive content is no easy task. Especially when we have so many content and even more ways of storing and sharing these. How can we make sure that the sensitive content is sufficiently protected but without undermining the usefulness of all the platforms we use to store it? All these cloud apps Some time ago a CloudTech research estimated that more than 15% of European organisations use more than 1000 cloud apps, with Google Drive, Facebook, and Twitter the most popular. And … [Read more...]
Intune and SharePoint Online working together. Secure access to SharePoint content using unmanaged devices
Site collection based conditional access I will have to be fair. I planned to write a blog about the conditional access to specific site collections within SharePoint Online. This is a feature by Microsoft which should be available in first release tenants, as of september 1st 2017. But...... it isn't (as yet). At the end of this blog, you will find the required PowerShell cmdlet. But at this moment (september 15th) this cmdlet did not work in my tenant. So instead, I will detail how you … [Read more...]
Office 365 data retention – then and now
The Sogeti Smart Workspace offers a great platform for collaboration and document management (amongst others). But although working is such in environment is becoming more and more intuitive and easy, we must not underestimate the need for data retention and -management. In this article I explain the options for data retention. Working from the possibilities in the (not so distant) past to the new functions of Office 365. Those of us who have worked with data retention, SharePoint and Office … [Read more...]
Azure Information Protection – part two
We live in a world where information is readily available and can be shared with a simply press of a button. Protecting intellectual property (especially unstructured information like documents and emails) in this modern world is getting harder and harder for organizations. There are stories abound of employees simply copying files to an USB-stick or storing them on a personal web storage platform (Dropbox, OneDrive, you name them) or attaching documents to an email and mailing it to a personal … [Read more...]
Azure Information Protection – part one
We live in a world where information is readily available and can be shared with a simply press of a button. Protecting intellectual property (especially unstructured information like documents and emails) in this modern world is getting harder and harder for organizations. There are stories abound of employees simply copying files to an USB-stick or storing them on a personal web storage platform (Dropbox, OneDrive, you name them) or attaching documents to an email and mailing it to a personal … [Read more...]