Microsoft today rolled out security updates and features for its Microsoft Compliance platform, with the goal of helping organizations protect data and address compliance regulations at a time when more employees are accessing sensitive corporate information from remote offices.
As the number of remote employees continues to grow, so too do enterprise concerns around industry regulations and custom requirements. Remote work demands people create, store, and share data in new ways, says Alym Rayani, general manager for Microsoft Compliance, in an interview ahead of this week's Microsoft Ignite conference.
"Achieving compliance was complex before, and that complexity and that challenge has exacerbated," he explains. Regulations are moving faster and growing more complicated; as they do, the audit process remains antiquated and slow. It's increasingly difficult for businesses to stay up to date on regulations and manage the complexity that comes along with them.
Compliance Manager, generally available today, brings together the existing Compliance Manager and Compliance Score tools in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Compliance Manager has more than 150 out-of-the box and scalable assessments so teams can check industry- and region-specific requirements.
With these, they can map the controls associated with specific regulations to recommended actions and give a risk-based score. This gives the organization a better idea of how they're doing, as well as steps for improvement. A data protection component maps to controls around how the organization protects information with encryption and multifactor authentication.
Compliance Manager can be used to handle data both inside and outside Microsoft apps and services. New "connectors" can pull ..
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