From the course: Microsoft Security Essentials: Concepts, Solutions, and AI-Powered Protection

Privacy protection with Microsoft Priva - Microsoft Security Copilot Tutorial

From the course: Microsoft Security Essentials: Concepts, Solutions, and AI-Powered Protection

Privacy protection with Microsoft Priva

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- [Instructor] Privacy has become a major concern in today's business world. It goes beyond meeting regulatory requirements. It's essential for building organizational trust. Now let's look at the privacy protection capabilities provided by Microsoft Priva. The core of a privacy protection is processing personal data lawfully, fairly and transparently. It covers consent and collection. Before collecting personal data, you must obtain clear consent from individuals so they understand what data you are collecting and for what purposes. Also, only collect data that is necessary to minimize risks. Storage and transfer. You must store personal data securely using technologies like encryption. When transferring data, you must prevent data leaks and complying with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, such as cross-border data transfer rules. Data access. You must limit access to sensitive personal information and prevent unauthorized disclosure. Data sharing. You must obtain agreements from individuals before sharing their personal data with third parties. Also only share data when it's necessary and for a legitimate purpose. In data retention, you must properly manage the lifecycle of personal data. Retain them only when necessary or required by regulatory requirements and securely delete them after the retention period. The key to protect privacy is privacy by design and by default. In other words, we need to have privacy in mind from the beginning of our business and system design. Also, strong privacy protection should be a default setting at every stage of the data lifecycle. Microsoft Priva provides a set of solutions for managing privacy, including privacy risk management. It helps organizations set up policies to identify privacy risks and recommend remediation actions. Subject Rights Requests. Privacy regulations like GDPR require giving individuals or data subjects control over their personal data. Subject Rights Requests helps organization fulfill their requests more efficiently with automated workflows and insights. Consent Management. It helps streamline the process of obtaining, managing, and tracking user consent for personal data. Privacy Assessment. It automates the discovery assessment and the documentation of personal data usage across the entire organization. And the Tracker Scanning. It helps identify, manage, and report various tracking technologies across multiple websites. In addition, Microsoft Priva provides a unified portal to access all its solutions. Now let's take a quick tour of Microsoft Priva. Here's a Microsoft Priva portal. Here we can see a list of privacy protection solutions, including Consent Management, Privacy Assessments, Privacy Risk Management, Subject Rights Requests, and Tracker Scanning. You can click on a solution to access its functions. For example, Privacy Risk Management. You can set up various risk policies. Subject Rights Requests. You can create a Microsoft 365 request. And Tracker Scanning. You can register websites for scanning trackers.

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