What do we mean by ‘Sharing in the Modern Workplace’? And who is accountable for ensuring compliance and safety when we exchange information at work?
The Digital Age
As a human being, it’s all very awe-inspiring. I recognise that I am living in the age of digital technology, which we have all entered.
We are the first to implement digital information technology. As the first, we are destined to make errors and fail to comprehend the full implications of our actions today. For example, when whisky distiller Kevin Systrom developed Instagram, he had no idea he was laying the groundwork for a pursuit of flawless lifestyles and unending sponsored advertisements. Did he pause to consider the impact that ‘eggs isolated on a white background’ might have on impressionable teenage minds? No, but who could blame him? Not, me.
Microsoft 365 in the Modern Workplace
Unlike Instagram, Microsoft 365 is a serious corporate solution with a strong focus on efficiency and cooperation. It is not, however, immune to its own paradoxes and logical oddities. It should be simple for you as a Microsoft Team Owner or a SharePoint Site Owner to know who is accessing your information in Microsoft 365. But it is not. To discover who is accessing your information, you must have the highest level of access inside Microsoft 365, which will tell you who has access to everything in Microsoft 365, not just your information. This is entirely problematic since the only individuals who genuinely understand who should have access to their data are the ones who created it.
IT administrators frequently compare Microsoft 365 Sharing to the character Mogwai from the film Gremlins.
- Sharing was a nice and harmless companion that was widely used by IT professionals before Microsoft 365 poured a massive bucket of water on collaboration, resulting in a massive multiplication of sharing and cooperation.
- Sharing anonymously is akin to feeding Mogwai after midnight, converting sharing into a demonic, violent, and mad rampaging beast.
- Sharing is simple to “misuse” and doing so may swiftly spiral out of control and ruin your life. It’s like buying a digital Mogwai without the manual.
Businesses answer to this problem is to just not play with Mogwai. It has become normal to keep Mogwai in its ornate box by turning off sharing within Microsoft 365.
Making Sharing in the Modern Workplace safe
There is another way so that you can play with Mogwai and keep your business safe and complaint. It’s Torsion. Torsion is a whole Business Data Access Governance solution for Microsoft 365.
Torsion seamlessly empowers data owners to take responsibility for their own data, because they understand their data best. Its 360-degree visibility and round-the-clock audit trail effortlessly satisfies compliance. And its intelligent automation eliminates inappropriate permissions throughout your data at massive scale, in real time, on auto-pilot.
Fully automated with rapid value in mind, Torsion is quick and easy to deploy, and needs little or no user training. Data owners own the decisions which make sense for them, saving IT precious time whilst maintaining oversight.
Torsion is crafted to be simple, intelligent and effortless for business users, not just IT. It’s trustworthy Data Access Governance for security and compliance, so you can liberate collaboration.
Imagine a world where users can collaborate freely, data access is under control, compliance is a breeze, and the whole thing runs itself. It’s how we bring the phrase, ‘collaborate without limits’ to life.
Sharing in Microsoft 365 is like when the Grandfather says at the end of the movie Gremlins, “To hear, one must just listen” And this is what Torsion enables everyone to accomplish in Microsoft 365.