data access governance

This data access governance tag covers Microsoft 365 and SharePoint efforts to identify and reduce excessive or overly broad permissions. Recent coverage examines new SharePoint Advanced Management reporting for item-level access granted through the Everyone and Everyone except external users groups, helping administrators locate exposed files, folders, lists, and sites. It also explains why permissions become especially important when organizations deploy Microsoft Copilot, custom AI agents, and similar tools: these systems can surface information that users or service accounts can already access. The tag is relevant to teams reviewing oversharing, stale permissions, hybrid identity, and enterprise readiness for AI across SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and file shares.