Copilot oversharing occurs when Microsoft 365 Copilot inadvertently shares or exposes sensitive, confidential, or irrelevant information in response to user prompts. Since Copilot accesses data across an organisation’s Microsoft 365 environment (e.g., SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams), it can unintentionally display information not intended for a particular user or context. Oversharing occurs when Copilot retrieves or suggests data that goes beyond the intended audience, potentially leading to security breaches, compliance violations, or data leaks.
The Zero Trust strategy is a modern security approach designed to safeguard your organisation’s most valuable data by following the principle of “never trust, always verify.” Unlike traditional security models that assume everything within an organisation’s network is safe, Zero Trust recognizes that both internal and external threats can exist. It requires continuous identity verification, strict access controls, and monitoring to protect your data—no matter where your team or data resides.
Enable Zero Trust Security
Minimize risks by adhering to the "never trust, always verify" principle, ensuring secure access to data.
Protect Sensitive Information
Prevent accidental exposure of classified, confidential, or personal data.
Ensure Compliance
Meet industry regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, or ISO 27001 by managing data visibility and access.
Maintain Integrity
Safeguard your intellectual property and maintain trust with internal and external stakeholders.
How Affirmatic Helps Solve the Oversharing Challenge
Affirmatic is strategically designed for tackling the complexities of Microsoft 365 governance, providing robust solutions to eliminate oversharing risks while enhancing productivity.
1. Access Management and Control
Automates permissions reviews and updates, ensuring only the right users have access to the right data.
Implements the principle of least privilege to prevent excessive access rights across Teams, SharePoint, and Groups.
Identifies and removes inactive guest users who no longer need access.
2. Oversharing Detection
Audit and Report Sharing Links: Detect publicly shared links and their recipients to ensure no unauthorized access occurs.
Visual dashboards to identify and mitigate oversharing hotspots across your Microsoft 365 environment.
3. Secure Collaboration Enablement
Streamlines secure guest user management, ensuring external collaborators can only access what’s necessary.
Integrates approval workflows for high-risk sharing requests, enabling business accountability.
4. Zero Trust Aligned Governance
Implements Zero Trust Strategies by verifying every user and access request before granting permissions.
5. Proactive Risk Management
Risk-Based Alerts: Flags high-risk activities, such as excessive sharing, for review and action.
6. Enhanced Employee Awareness
User Education and Notifications: Sends contextual alerts to users about oversharing risks, helping them make informed decisions when sharing files or data.
7. Tailored Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Creates granular role-based policies, ensuring that employees have access only to the data relevant to their roles.
8. Governance at Scale
Scalable governance policies to handle large volumes of data, users, and access requests efficiently, suitable for global enterprises with complex environments.
9. Regular Policy Reviews and Updates
Our dashboard allows for periodic reviews of sharing policies and permissions to ensure alignment with evolving security needs and compliance requirements.
Affirmatic empowers your organisation to use Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively while maintaining control over data sharing. With automated governance, seamless collaboration tools, and Zero Trust-aligned policies, you can maximize productivity without compromising security
Oversharing detection
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