PII Discovery and Protection Quick Start
Uncover PII Risks. Establish Control. Trust Your Data.
At DataWyse, we help organisations take control of their data wherever it lives. Our PII Discovery and Protection Quick Start provides rapid clarity on where Personally Identifiable Information resides in your Microsoft data estate. Quickly identify PII hot spots reduce risk and establish a foundation for robust data privacy and governance.
Benefits
Pinpoint PII location and exposure
Gain a clear understanding of where sensitive PII like TFNs, Medicare numbers or customer contact details are stored across your selected data sources. Our Quick Start maps PII assets within specific Azure SQL databases, Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Power BI workspaces providing crucial visibility others miss.
Accelerate privacy and compliance efforts
Move beyond manual PII inventories. This service rapidly configures Microsoft Purview to automatically scan and classify PII helping you demonstrate progress towards privacy obligations. Build a repeatable method for identifying sensitive data that supports regulatory inquiries and audits.
Reduce PII risk exposure
Identify high risk PII concentrations such as excessive PII in broadly accessible reports or poorly governed data lakes. Our report highlights these "hot spots" allowing you to prioritise actions and reduce the likelihood of inappropriate access or data incidents.
Lay the groundwork for advanced data governance
Establish working Purview collections and a starter PII glossary focused on key PII types. This provides a practical foundation for extending PII discovery to more systems enforcing access controls and integrating PII insights into your broader data governance strategy.
How It Works
Step 1: Discover and Scope
We begin with a focused workshop to identify your critical PII risk areas and regulatory drivers. Together we select one to two priority domains like Customer or Employee data and agree on a small number of high value data sources for the pilot. This ensures maximum impact with minimal effort.
Step 2: Configure and Scan
Our experts configure Microsoft Purview specifically for PII detection. We set up collections and fine tune PII classifiers including region specific ones. We then register your chosen data sources and run initial scans generating a comprehensive PII asset inventory.
Step 3: Analyse and Showcase
We validate classification results and identify high risk PII concentrations within your selected data. We deliver a PII focused Quick Start Summary and Recommendations document outlining key findings priority risks and practical next steps for PII protection and broader governance.
Who It's For
This service is ideal for CISO or Head of Security Privacy Officers or Risk and Compliance leads and Head of Data / Analytics. If your organisation uses Microsoft data technologies has existing or emerging privacy obligations and needs rapid visibility of PII locations and flows this Quick Start is for you. We help mid-market to corporate organisations operating in regulated industries like financial services health utilities or public sector.
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of PII does this Quick Start discover?
We configure Purview to discover a broad range of PII including common identifiers like names email addresses phone numbers and potentially region specific identifiers like Australian TFNs or Medicare numbers. The exact scope is defined during our initial discovery workshop.
How long does the PII Discovery and Protection Quick Start take?
The service typically takes 3 to 4 weeks elapsed. This duration can vary slightly depending on the complexity of your selected data sources and the speed of internal approvals for access and connectivity.
Is this a full enterprise PII audit?
No, this Quick Start is a targeted, fixed scope engagement designed to provide a rapid proof of concept and immediate value for specific high priority PII domains and data sources. It establishes a strong foundation enabling you to scale your PII discovery across the enterprise in subsequent phases.
What if we don't have Microsoft Purview set up yet?
We can assist with validating or initial setup of Microsoft Purview in a suitable Azure subscription as part of this Quick Start. This ensures your Purview instance is correctly configured to support PII discovery from day one.
What happens after the Quick Start?
You will receive a summary and recommendations document with clear action items. We can discuss options for extending PII discovery to additional systems tightening controls around high risk assets and integrating Purview into your ongoing privacy and governance workflows through follow on advisory or managed services.
Get Clear on Your PII Risks Today
Rapidly understand where your PII lives and how to protect it.