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Data classification

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The practice of identifying and categorizing data by sensitivity or business value, for example with sensitive information types and labels, so that protection policies such as DLP can target what matters.

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Configure Microsoft 365 DLP Policies in Purview

2025-11-03 · Video on YouTube

This episode examines the real return on Copilot by focusing on outcomes rather than features. It argues that the biggest cost in modern organizations isn’t failed projects or bad strategy, but the quiet drain of routine work—emails, meetings, drafts…

Microsoft Purview - Simply Explained

2026-07-16 · Video on YouTube

Microsoft Purview is Microsoft's unified platform for data security, compliance, and governance, helping organizations understand, protect, and manage their data wherever it lives. As businesses embrace Microsoft 365, Azure, SaaS applications, and AI, keeping…

How to Stop AI Agents from Deleting Important Emails

2026-01-09 · Video on YouTube

In The Night the Emails Died: Anatomy of an AI Cleanup, we explore a quiet but consequential failure that unfolds when artificial intelligence is given autonomy without precise guardrails. What starts as a routine effort to clean up a shared inbox turns into…

Lock Down Copilot Studio Agent Permissions with DLP

2025-11-03 · Video on YouTube

Copilot Studio agents don’t have their own ethics—or identities. By default they borrow the caller’s token, so any SharePoint, Outlook, Dataverse, or custom API you can see, your bot can see—and say. That’s how “innocent” answers leak context: connectors…

2025-11-03 – Configure Microsoft 365 DLP Policies in Purview2025-11-03 – Govern Power Platform Environments Instead of Disabling…2025-11-03 – Lock Down Copilot Studio Agent Permissions with DLP2026-01-09 – How to Stop AI Agents from Deleting Important Emails2026-03-16 – Microsoft Copilot Governance Without Waiting for Perfect…2026-04-05 – Cloud Governance as Architecture, Not Feature Management2026-07-16 – Microsoft Purview - Simply Explained2025-112026-07
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Articles about Data classification (5)

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What should I do first with Purview?

Run the data classification scan. The episode says knowing what you have changes everything, and the rest flows from that step. · From the episode: Microsoft Purview - Simply Explained

How can AI agents be prevented from deleting important emails?

Give clear guidelines, build a data classification framework to define which emails matter, keep human oversight to review automated actions and design systems that allow users to intervene. · From the episode: How to Stop AI Agents from Deleting Important…

What role does Microsoft Purview play in agent governance?

Purview provides data classification and DLP policies that manage access, monitor interactions and protect sensitive information. Regular audits and user training add to the technical controls. · From the episode: Lock Down Copilot Studio Agent Permissions…

What practical steps support architectural governance?

Set clear policies for access and sensitive data, automate compliance, review user access regularly and use data classification and retention. Add MFA and conditional access, train employees and keep adapting the framework. · From the episode: Cloud Governance as Architecture, Not Feature…

What risks appear without Power Platform governance?

The show notes list overprivileged access, missing audit trails, poor lifecycle management of old apps, unverified third-party connectors, poor data classification, noncompliant AI use, personal environments and misconfigured DLP policies. · From the episode: Govern Power Platform Environments Instead of…

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