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AI Readiness Program

Make Copilot safe to deploy.

Most organisations aren't ready to turn on Microsoft 365 Copilot. We identify what's blocking a safe rollout and resolve it before AI starts surfacing the gaps.

Why this matters

Copilot indexes every site, every drive, every shared link a user can reach.

In environments where access controls have sprawled, data is unclassified and OneDrive accounts are orphaned, the productivity gains quickly give way to governance exposure. Those conditions aren't edge cases; they're the natural state of a Microsoft 365 tenant that's run for years without review. It's why we see the same pattern across Australian mid-market and enterprise environments: most fail every Copilot readiness gate on day one. Closing those gaps, across access, classification, retention and identity, is what turns Copilot from a liability into the productivity tool it was meant to be.

One program. Three stages.

Readiness is the foundation for every stage of AI.

Copilot is where most organisations begin. The same governance work that makes it safe is what carries you through to connected and agentic AI, so the foundation is built once and reused at every stage.

Stage 1Start here
Consume
Productivity AI

Copilot for everyday work. Summarise, draft and search across what your people already touch.

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Stage 2
Integrate
Connected AI

AI joined to external tools and data beyond the tenant.

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Stage 3
Build
Agentic AI

Autonomous agents and workflows that act alone.

Copilot's reach · what one user exposes
One employee inherits every permission Copilot Microsoft 365 Copilot EVERYTHING COPILOT CAN NOW SURFACE SharePoint sites OneDrive ! Teams messages Shared links ! Email & files Old projects ! Over-shared, unclassified or orphaned, exposed to anyone who asks.
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What we commonly find

Six patterns that block safe AI rollout.

Recurring conditions we surface in long-running Microsoft 365 tenants, before Copilot ever sees them.

Sharing
Anyone-link exposure
Years of casual link sharing leave unauthenticated access scattered across the tenant. Copilot honours those permissions, so content shared once with a single recipient can resurface in answers given to anyone in the business.
Identity
Orphaned OneDrives
Departed-staff content stays searchable long after they've left. Copilot draws on that material when answering current staff, regardless of what the original owner intended.
Compliance
Data residency drift
Australian-origin data routinely ends up offshore through default M365 routing and connected SaaS apps. For organisations with residency obligations, that exposure sits unaddressed until a deliberate discovery is run.
Classification
Minimal sensitivity labelling
Coverage typically starts near zero. Without Purview labels in place, Copilot has no way to tell a sensitive file from open information, and treats both the same way in its responses.
Apps
Privileged app sprawl
Third-party apps accumulate tenant-wide write and permission management rights over time. Each one extends Copilot's reach beyond the controls your team has put in place.
Readiness
No Copilot guardrails
Most tenants fail every Copilot readiness gate on first scan. Closing them spans access, classification, retention and identity; it's what stands between a rollout that delivers and one you have to pause.
The AI Readiness Program

A Copilot-ready environment, with the evidence and a plan to keep it that way.

Powered by Cyera DSPM for independent discovery, with Microsoft Purview for labelling and enforcement, and sequenced around your business goals. Six stages, each producing something specific you can act on.

01
Cyera Data Discovery (DSPM)

Agentless, AI-classified discovery across SharePoint, OneDrive and beyond Microsoft, surfacing where data lives, what's sensitive, and where residency obligations are breached.

02
SharePoint Estate Reporting

A quantified inventory of every site and drive, with ownership, exposure and orphaned content mapped, so Copilot scope is decided on evidence rather than assumption.

03
Copilot Readiness Assessment

Seven-gate evaluation against access, classification, retention and identity controls, with a clear remediation path per gate.

04
High-Level Design

Target architecture for SharePoint hubs and sites, folder taxonomy, Entra ID groups and data ownership, shaped around how your business operates.

05
Phased Remediation Roadmap

30 / 60 / 90 / 180 / 365 day phases, ranked by risk and Copilot impact, and sized so your team can carry the work alongside everything else.

06
Governance Framework

Data Owner model, access review cadence and joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle scenarios, designed to run inside your business after we step back.

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Cyera × Microsoft Purview

What Cyera sees that Microsoft can't see alone.

Purview is excellent at labelling and enforcement inside Microsoft 365. Cyera is the independent discovery engine that finds and ranks the risk first, including everything outside Microsoft's reach.

Coverage
Agentless in minutes
Connects by API, no agents or appliances. Maps data across multi-cloud and SaaS, not just the Microsoft tenant, with visibility in minutes rather than weeks.
Accuracy
AI-native classification
Machine-learning classification reads context, identifying PII, PHI, PCI, credentials, IP and AI training data with far fewer false positives than pattern rules alone.
Reach
Beyond Microsoft
Sees data Purview's scoped classifiers miss: AWS S3, Azure Blob, Snowflake, BigQuery, Salesforce and unmanaged stores across the wider estate.
Risk
Risk prioritisation
Surfaces toxic combinations, sensitive and public, sensitive and stale, sensitive and over-privileged, so remediation starts where the real exposure is.
Access
Exposure analytics
Shows who can access what, from where, and why it matters, turning years of permission sprawl into a ranked, actionable list.
Compliance
Shadow data & residency
Finds shadow data and offshore copies, and maps every finding back to the frameworks your contracts and regulators depend on.
The perfect pair

Cyera finds the risk. Purview enforces the fix.

Cyera is the independent discovery and classification layer; Purview turns those findings into labels, DLP and retention. Run together, they form a closed loop, from discovery to assurance, that neither delivers alone.

Cyera
Discover · Classify · Prioritise

Agentless, AI-driven. Finds and ranks sensitive data everywhere it lives.

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Purview
Label · Protect · Enforce

Applies sensitivity labels, DLP and retention to what Cyera surfaces.

governs→
Copilot
Safe to deploy

Answers only from governed data, with risk found and fixed first.

↻ Continuous assurance — new data is discovered, classified and governed as it lands.
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Customer outcomes

What success looks like.

The Cornerstone stack

  • Cyera DSPMAgentless, AI-driven data discovery, classification and exposure analytics across the estate
  • Microsoft PurviewSensitivity labelling, retention, DLP and enforcement on Cyera's findings
  • SharePoint AdminTenant export, sharing analysis and indexing inventory
  • Entra IDGroup architecture and joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle
  • Microsoft 365 CopilotGoverned, gated rollout once readiness is cleared
Shaun Struik
Your senior advisor
Shaun Struik
Director · Co-Founder

"We don't push tools, we provide perspective. Then we hand you a plan you can actually run."

Shaun brings more than two decades across IT, cybersecurity and enterprise architecture, the kind of large-scale experience rarely found in mid-market consulting. He has designed and delivered security strategies for government, defence and billion-dollar enterprises, and led global IT and security operations for a MedTech business through a period of significant scale.

His strength is translating complex security requirements into clear, scalable solutions that fit real business constraints. On the AI Readiness Program he leads the strategy and solution design himself, so the plan you receive is shaped by the person who built it.

How it works together

One governed pipeline, built end to end on Microsoft.

Microsoft 365 data

SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams content Copilot can reach.

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Cyera DSPM

Discovers and AI-classifies sensitive data, everywhere it lives.

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Microsoft Purview

Labels, protects and enforces on what Cyera surfaces.

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Microsoft Copilot

Answers only from data a user is governed to see.

Cyera deployed alongside the Microsoft 365 BP / E3 / E5 licences you already own.
Get in touch

Book an AI Readiness Discovery Session.

Make Copilot safe to deploy.
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