Before we start, please not that if you want to see a table of contents for all the sections of this blog and their various Purview topics, you can locate the in the following link:
Microsoft Purview - Compliance Score (Part 1) - Overview
This document is not meant to replace any official documentation, including those found at docs.microsoft.com. Those documents are continually updated and maintained by Microsoft Corporation. If there is a discrepancy between this document and what you find in the Compliance User Interface (UI) or inside of a reference in docs.microsoft.com, you should always defer to that official documentation and contact your Microsoft Account team as needed. Links to the docs.microsoft.com data will be referenced both in the document steps as well as in the appendix.
All of the following steps should be done with test data, and where possible, testing should be performed in a test environment. Testing should never be performed against production data.
This blog series is aimed at Security and Compliance officers who need to understand how the Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager assessments can help them meet their regulatory and certification needs.
This document will only be discussing the assessment specific to the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline and which Purview components are needed to meet those requirements in the assessment and its associated certifications and regulations.
This document does not cover any other aspect of Microsoft E5 Purview, including:
For details on licensing (ie. which components and functions of Purview are in E3 vs E5) you will need to contact your Microsoft Security Specialist, Account Manager, or certified partner.
We will not be walking through the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment step-by-step. For more information on running an assessment in Compliance Manager, you should reference the corresponding documentation listed in the Appendix and Links section below.
We will be walking through how the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment can be leveraged to meet the multiple certification and regulatory needs and provide quantifiable results for meeting those certification and regulatory needs.
Looking at the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment at a high level.
It is highly recommended that you run your own Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment to see the following information in your own Tenant.
It is highly recommended that you run your own Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment to see the following information in your own Tenant.
Here is the definition listed in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager.
“The Microsoft 365 data protection baseline is a set of controls that includes common industry regulations and standards. This baseline draws elements primarily from NIST CSF (National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework) and ISO (International Organization for Standardization), as well as from FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union).”
You can also find more information at the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline official website, listed in the Appendix and Links section below.
This is the official Microsoft tool that scans your tenant and compares it to the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline. It then provides a report and workflow.
We narrow the scope of from All Microsoft Data Protection Baseline Control Families (21x) the Assessment runs to just the Compliance applicable Microsoft Data Protection Baseline Control Families (9x). Then we can take those tactical Control Families and leverage the applicable Microsoft Purview tools that, when applied, can help you meet these Control Families.
Let us look at the details of the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment as they related to Microsoft Compliance Purview solutions and your Compliance Score for your Microsoft tenant.
The Baseline assessment will report back on ALL the Control Families that are part of the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment.
From a Purview perspective, here are the 9 Control Families that are applicable to Microsoft Data Protection Baseline workloads.
Now that you know which Control Families are relevant to Microsoft Data Protection Baseline, here are the Purview solutions that are part will help you meet those baseline needs.
Let us look at a diagram the Microsoft Data Protection Baseline assessment’s points that it applies 1) Baseline Controls overall, 2) points that can specifically be addressed by Purview related tools, and 3) then the percentage of the Baseline assessment points covered by implementing the Purview tools.
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs
Microsoft Purview- Paint By Numbers Series (Part 0) - Overview - Microsoft Tech Community
Compliance score calculation - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn
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