Project / Delivered (repeatable methodology)
Governance & security assessment
A structured readiness assessment for organisations considering Microsoft 365 Copilot. Covers the security and governance hygiene that determines whether Copilot is safe to deploy — because the gaps it exposes are as consequential as the deployment itself. Half a dozen delivered across SMB and mid-market clients.
- Status
- Delivered (repeatable methodology)
- Group
- Client Work
- Stack
- SharePoint Online, Microsoft Intune, Entra ID, Microsoft Purview (DLP, sensitivity labels), Power Platform
- Repo
- Previous employer — private (Azure DevOps)
- Related writing
- Internal only (previous employer)
Architecture
- SharePoint permission and oversharing audit — maps which content Copilot would surface to whom if deployed today.
- Intune device posture review — confirms managed device compliance baseline.
- Guest-user inventory and access review — scopes external exposure.
- DLP and sensitivity-label coverage review — assesses whether classification is in place to guide Copilot's behaviour.
- Weighted scoring model aggregates findings into a readiness score with per-workstream breakdown.
- Costed remediation roadmap turns findings into a prioritised action list with indicative effort — designed to convert directly into a follow-on engagement.
Evidence
- Half a dozen assessments delivered across SMB and mid-market clients.
- Methodology repeatable and reusable across engagements with consistent output format.
- Assessment report is a standalone deliverable; remediation work generated as natural follow-on.
- Covers the full governance surface: permissions, device posture, external access, classification, and DLP.