The last few years have seen a huge shift in how organizations work with their data. The COVID pandemic accelerated a digital transformation as workers transitioned from the office to home-based and back into hybrid working environments. With this new set-up, collaboration is key to worker efficiency. However, the adoption of Microsoft 365 and Teams as a front-end platform has created new challenges for security teams.

Data governance is a broad term that refers to the strategy of managing availability, usability, standard compliance, consistency, data integrity, and data security in organizations and companies. While the term is notorious for escaping definitions, data governance is often defined as the first essential branch of data management strategy.