Driven by advances in Microsoft Purview capabilities released after late 2024, a new approach to building enterprise-grade data security solutions with Microsoft Purview has been unlocked, based on the two C's: content and context.

This is the logical evolutionary step from earlier approaches that emphasize individual user choice through mandatory manual labeling.

The new approach builds on this well-established foundation by helping guide and automate label application in the highest-value cases while also taking away much of the burden of daily manual sensitivity labeling based on the context the information was created in. Solutions built around this philosophy are already being utilized by many mature and forward-thinking organizations.

In this session, I will share my experiences working as a data security solution architect by demoing and explaining how to design and build a foundational layer of confidential workspaces in Teams and SharePoint. Then, we'll put these confidential working contexts to good use, building flexible & powerful automatic data security and data lifecycle solutions that minimize business disruption and raise awareness while helping keep your most valuable data secure.

You will leave the session understanding how a few focused user decisions can now have powerful positive downstream effects without undue process disruption or control confusion. Join this session to learn how to design based on this new paradigm and take your data security solution to the next level!

The session is especially suited for security architects, data security responsibles and anyone looking to upgrade their Purview data security solution.

Based on my experiences as a leading Purview specialist and MVP and my wide-ranging practical technical and architectural work with customers during 2024 and 2025.