Discover Sensitive Data: 6W Workshop

83% of organizations experience more than one data breach in their lifetime (IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report). In most cases, the root cause is the same: organizations cannot see what sensitive data they have, where it lives, how it is classified, or whether it is being shared appropriately. Privacy and regulatory risks hide in plain sight across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams.

Without that visibility, every compliance audit becomes a scramble, every regulatory inquiry becomes a crisis, and every AI deployment becomes a risk multiplier.

This 6-week Sensitive Data Workshop is delivered in your production Microsoft 365 environment to uncover real privacy and regulatory risks specific to your organization, not theoretical scenarios.

Who this is for: Compliance officers, CISOs, and IT Directors at regulated organizations with 250 to 5,000 employees that run Microsoft 365 and need clear visibility into sensitive data exposure before their next audit, regulatory review, or AI deployment.

Industries we serve: Healthcare, financial services, life sciences, aerospace and defense, and insurance, with compliance alignment to HIPAA, NIST, and PCI-DSS.

What you get in 6 weeks:

Week 1: Data Classification and Labeling Framework. We establish the foundation by building a classification and labeling framework tailored to your regulatory requirements and data types. This defines how sensitive data will be identified, categorized, and protected across your environment.

Week 2: Microsoft 365 Environment Assessment. A comprehensive assessment of your current Microsoft 365 environment using Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and Content Search to establish your data protection baseline.

Weeks 3 and 4: Privacy and Regulatory Risk Discovery. Automated discovery across your production Microsoft 365 workloads (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams) to detect sensitive information, stale data, and privacy risks. This leverages Microsoft 365 tools and services to search for data that may expose your organization to regulatory penalties or breach liability.

Week 5: Analysis and Reporting. Collection and analysis of findings, mapped to compliance solutions in Microsoft 365 that reduce privacy and regulatory risks. Data-driven analytics and visualization give your leadership team a clear picture of where exposure exists and how severe it is.

Week 6: Recommendations and Next Steps. A tailored set of recommendations with prioritized actions to remediate identified risks. You leave with a clear path to protect and govern your corporate data, not a list of problems without solutions.

The methodology behind it: This engagement follows the full data governance lifecycle: data is detected across devices, cloud, and on-premises environments, then classified and labeled based on sensitivity. Protection is applied through encryption, permissions, and DLP policies. Data is continuously monitored for sharing, usage, and potential abuse, with governance policies governing retention and disposal. This lifecycle approach ensures that protection is persistent and travels with the data, not just applied at a single point in time.

Regulatory alignment: The engagement maps to the NIST Risk Management Framework (SP 800-39), covering system categorization, control selection, implementation, assessment, and continuous monitoring. This ensures your data governance program aligns with recognized standards rather than vendor-specific checklists.

Pricing: $5,000. Click "Contact Me" to schedule a discovery call and confirm this engagement fits your environment.

Why Exelegent? Exelegent is a cybersecurity and compliance services company with 10 years of experience in data security across regulated industries. Over 200 clients have trusted our team. 100% customer retention rate. $20M+ in documented savings delivered to customers. Our approach combines Microsoft Purview capabilities with the TrustElements platform for regulatory compliance posture assessment, giving you visibility that goes beyond native Microsoft tooling.