Extract from Onna’s article “How to Improve Microsoft Teams Governance with Microsoft Purview”
Digital collaboration is moving fast, and no one knows this better than Microsoft Teams. Launched in 2017 and currently sitting at 270 million users, Teams has quickly become the hub for workplace collaboration in thousands of enterprises. But as organizations increasingly meet, collaborate, and automate their work in Teams, the business requirement to properly control and secure data while it’s being accessed, changed, and shared is getting more difficult.
So, we’ve got to ask: is your organization successfully implementing strong Teams governance?
Governance can help maximize the value and minimize the risk of not only your Teams data, but data spread across the entire Microsoft 365 environment, especially given its tight integrations with OneDrive, SharePoint, and other tools.
The modern data estate
Corporate data is often stored in multiple locations, including both virtually and geographically. A global research survey conducted by Splunk revealed that 55% of an organization’s data is dark, meaning it’s unused, unknown, and untapped. This makes it nearly impossible for organizations to protect that data, close exposure gaps, comply with regulatory requirements, or even manage access controls.
