The Record - Issue 20: Spring 2021

61 Tell us about a success story of a client that was able to transition to secure home-working and enabled digital transformation in the process. One of our customers, a marketing consulting firm, was using some of the Microsoft 365 suite of products. It had focused heavily on email and on-premises file shares but had also tested some SharePoint Online and OneDrive use cases. When employees started working from home, the firm was concerned about productiv- ity and how it would secure sensitive data. We were able to help the customer use SharePoint Online and Teams to keep the business moving, and to use solutions such as conditional access policies, data loss prevention (DLP) policies and Azure Information Protection to meet security requirements. Why should organisations choose MDS? MDS has an extremely talented team of certified experts. There are a lot of companies that could help a business migrate data to the cloud, con- figure settings related to access management or create a DLP policy but our team takes a larger view and asks why those items are being put in place. Since so much of security is policy driven, we want to know what is driving the implementa- tion. From there, the conversation usually reveals that there are not only some gaps in the original approach, but it also helps to develop which ways our team can help them take full advantage of the tools and platforms to which they already have access. Being a Microsoft Gold Partner means our team has the skills to help companies tackle this complex issue and find the right solutions.