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F.02 · FOUNDATIONS

Data Estate
Readiness
and Governance.

Classification, ownership and access governance applied to the data already in your tenant — so AI, Copilot and analytics workloads can sit on a surface we've actually assessed, not assumed.

ServiceF.02 — Data Estate Readiness & Governance
TrackFoundations
Typical scope3–4 weeks assess · 6–12 weeks remediate
EngagementSenior data architect-led
FrameworksMicrosoft Purview · Privacy Act · MIP

Why this matters

Most data estates have no owner. AI assumes one.

Mid-market data is scattered across SharePoint, OneDrive, file shares and a half-migrated Azure tenant. Sensitivity labels are inconsistently applied. Permissions accumulated over years of restructures. Nobody knows what's sensitive, where it lives, or who can see it.

We stand up classification, ownership and governance across every source — not just the ones Purview covers out of the box. Sized to the realities of Australian mid-market IT, not to a Fortune 500 reference document.

What it includes

Six work-streams, scoped to your environment.

01

Estate discovery

Inventory of where data actually lives — SharePoint, OneDrive, file shares, Teams, Azure storage.

02

Sensitivity classification

Microsoft Information Protection labels designed, piloted and rolled out against a coverage target.

03

Permissions remediation

Oversharing surfaced via Purview/Restricted Access scans and remediated site-by-site.

04

DLP & insider risk

Data Loss Prevention and Insider Risk policies designed against your industry and Privacy Act obligations.

05

Ownership model

Data domains, owners and stewards defined — so governance is operated, not just configured.

06

Operating handover

Run-books for label hygiene, access reviews and incident response handed to internal IT.

Engagement sequence

How a data estate engagement runs.

STEP 01 · WEEKS 1–3

Discovery

Estate inventoried. Oversharing scanned. Existing labels and DLP audited.

→ Estate & risk baseline
STEP 02 · WEEKS 3–5

Design

Label taxonomy, DLP policy set, ownership model and rollout plan signed off.

→ Approved governance design
STEP 03 · WEEKS 5–10

Pilot & remediate

Pilot domain labelled and remediated. Auto-labelling, DLP and insider-risk turned on in audit-only.

→ Pilot domain governed
STEP 04 · WEEKS 10–16

Scale & handover

Roll-out across remaining domains. Operating model and run-books handed to internal IT.

→ Estate ready for AI & Copilot

Outcomes

What you have at the end.

CLASSIFIED

A data estate that has been labelled.

Sensitivity coverage at a target percentage you and your auditor can both defend.

CONTAINED

Oversharing surfaced and resolved.

The blast radius of a Copilot rollout reduced from "everything" to "what users should see".

OWNED

Governance with names against it.

Domains, owners and stewards defined — governance becomes a practice, not a configuration.

Other foundations services

What sits alongside.

The next step

Make the data estate something AI can safely sit on.

Forty-five minutes with a senior architect. We'll ask about your data estate, your Privacy Act obligations and your AI ambitions — and tell you honestly where to start.