Enhancing Data Privacy Compliance with Microsoft Priva: A Comprehensive Guide

As data drives innovation today, protecting privacy has become essential for individuals and corporations. Organizations need to prioritize privacy as a primary value, especially as more stringent legislation and scrutiny of data practices emerge internationally. A ‘privacy-first’ strategy builds confidence and guarantees compliance by granting consumers more control over their data. Businesses can create a culture where personal data is respected and protected by integrating accountability and transparency into their processes.

Various tools from Microsoft Priva are intended to simplify privacy operations inside an organization’s data ecosystem. This technology allows businesses to speed up regulatory compliance, standardize processes, and secure customer privacy. They guarantee that personal data is secure and private by automating privacy tasks at scale, such as administration, definition, and tracking. Additionally, Microsoft Priva lowers privacy risks, speeds up digital transformation, increases user confidence, and enables businesses to establish a trustworthy data privacy framework.

Have you explored the four new solutions now available in the Priva product range?

Four solutions have been added to the Priva range of products: Consent Management, Privacy Assessments, Subject Rights Requests, and Tracker Scanning.

  1. Consent Management: Regardless of the structure, organization, or distribution of the data across various cloud platforms, Priva Permission Management is a flexible tool that makes it easier and more efficient for organizations to manage the permissions for personal data. With customizable choices and a centralized system for reliable consent management, it enables organizations to develop and deploy consent models across numerous locations.
  2. Privacy Assessments: Priva Privacy Assessments assists you in automatically identifying, recording, and assessing the use of personal data within your company. With this solution, you can automate privacy checks and establish a transparent compliance record for responsible data use, regardless of the rules. Contact us, your Authorised Microsoft 365 partner in Kerala for assistance with your privacy assessment, or any Microsoft 365 support needs and ensure seamless compliance.
  3. Subject Rights Requests: Responding to data subject inquiries is easier and faster with Priva Subject Rights Requests. It assists organizations in managing requests more effectively and confidently by utilizing automation, insights, and workflows. Now, in preview, it covers your whole data ecosystem and supports requests for data outside of Microsoft 365.
  4. Tracker Scanning: By automatically identifying tracking technologies throughout their web properties, Priva Tracker Scanning assists organizations in efficiently managing website privacy compliance. It streamlines and eases the process by enabling you to search for trackers, examine and manage them, and simplify compliance reporting.

The Priva privacy protection and risk management capabilities are centralized in the new Priva portal. As explained above, new capabilities like Tracker Scanning, Privacy Assessments, Consent Management, and Subject Rights Requests for data outside of Microsoft 365 are included. Additionally, it contains pre-existing features like Subject Rights Requests and Privacy Risk Management for data within Microsoft 365, which you may still utilize on the traditional Microsoft Purview compliance portal if necessary.

Names, passport numbers, and other identifying information are examples of personal data. It can be grouped according to the legislation, and companies must know their legal obligations. Priva uses Microsoft Purview capabilities, such as data classifications and sensitive information categories to detect certain data. It examines information in the company’s environment in Microsoft 365 services, such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange Online. Priva cannot access personal information from sources registered with Microsoft Purview or outside the company’s Microsoft 365 environment. To know more about Microsoft Prima, connect to Codelattice by writing to us at 365@codelattice.com, your Microsoft 365 partner in India today.

Vijith Sivadasan

Written By Vijith Sivadasan

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