Copilot Readiness: Protect Data Before You Deploy

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Discover how organisations are building practical AI capability with Microsoft Copilot, Zero Trust, and robust data security. Learn actionable strategies for readiness, compliance, and continuous professional development in a rapidly evolving tech landscape featuring insights from Sam Brazier-Hollins.

🎙️ Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/788

👉 What you’ll learn     

• Assess Copilot readiness and secure sensitive data before deployment 
• Apply Zero Trust principles and simplify data labelling for real-world use 
• Use Copilot to streamline meetings, notes, and executive summaries 
• Identify and address over-shared information risks in M365 
• Build a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing in tech teams 

✅ Highlights     

• “We call it a M365 Copilot readiness assessment, where we go and look at your data.” 
• “Zero Trust is a great one. It spikes up every sort of year.” 
• “Data labelling is really key. Keep it simple so users don’t overthink.” 
• “Copilot is so powerful at finding information that’s been lost somewhere.” 
• “Mandatory labelling: before you can hit save, you have to enforce it there.” 
• “Meeting recordings and Teams notes - Copilot can summarise, give action items, and minutes.” 
• “The value of having this licence is we’ve saved 2 man hours of this consultant.” 
• “Security Copilot is really good at certain use cases. Some predefined ones work exactly as they say on the tin.” 
• “Continuous professional development - can’t just rely on what you knew last month or last year.” 
• “The best person in the team isn’t the person who’s got the most information. It’s the person who’s best at sharing.” 
• “Microsoft’s changing those things, they’re now disabling basic authentication, great.” 
• “It’s constantly changing and there’s a bit of that sort of almost gamification of it.” 

 🧰 Mentioned     

• Microsoft 365 - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365 
• Microsoft Copilot - https://copilot.microsoft.com/ 
• Purview - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/microsoft-purview 
• Microsoft MVP YouTube Series - How to Become a Microsoft MVP - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqdRJDPVE4PtTlm6quDhiu7 

✅ Keywords      
copilot, zero trust, data labelling, security, microsoft 365, purview, compliance, teams, sharepoint online, professional development, knowledge sharing, australian government 

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