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AI Readiness Program

Make Copilot safe to deploy.

Copilot is only half the picture. Purview governs data inside Microsoft 365; CrowdStrike Falcon secures the cloud-native data, and the data in motion, that connected and agentic AI expose. If you already run Falcon, the platform is already in place.

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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The readiness problem
Why Microsoft 365 Copilot isn't safe to switch on yet
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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.

Backed by Microsoft Purview and SharePoint reporting, and sequenced around what your business is trying to achieve. The program runs in six stages, each producing something specific your business can act on.

01
Falcon Cloud Security DSPM Discovery

CrowdStrike's agentless discovery and LLM classification across your cloud datastores, plus runtime monitoring of data in motion: where cloud data lives, how it moves, and where it is exposed.

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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The exposure
What a Copilot rollout inherits across your tenant
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See it the way CrowdStrike does

What your data risk actually looks like.

Falcon Cloud Security maps your cloud data the moment it connects: every datastore, every sensitive flow in motion, and every risky transfer, the picture we work from to secure the cloud-native side of AI.

falcon.crowdstrike.com /cloud-security/dspm
CLOUD SECURITY › DSPM
Dashboard
Last Month
Overview Data in Motion Data Stores Detections Identities
DSPM Scorei
19 / 100
↓ 16 vs Last Month
Critical Risk  |  14 Risks
Cloud Data Stores5 Risks →
Data Stores at Risk402↑+131 /445
Data in Motion4 Risks →
Risky Data Flows12,460↑+12,460
Identities & Access3 Risks →
Risky Access to Sensitive Data231↑+231 /288
GenAI Egress2 Risks →
Flows to GenAI Endpoints1,840↑+1,840 /5.2K
Top Risks and Recommendations (6) Filter by All ∨ ↻ CLEAR FILTER
Critical 3,200 PII records sent to a public S3 bucket View data flow →
Critical 1,840 sensitive transfers over unencrypted connections Investigate →
High 27 flows of sensitive data to external LLM endpoints Review shadow AI →
Cloud Data Stores
168↑+38
Total 173
Sensitive Data
38 GB↑+25 GB
Total 41.1 GB
Sensitive Records
39.8K↑+39.6K
Total 41.8K
Flows Monitored
1.2M↑+0.4M
Last 24h
Risky Transfers
284↑+47
Total 288
GenAI Egress Events
1,840↑+1,840
Total 5.2K

Representative Falcon Cloud Security DSPM dashboard. Figures are illustrative of what we surface across a multi-cloud estate.

Beyond data at rest

We watch sensitive data while it moves.

Falcon
Data Protection, runtime via eBPF
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Runtime, via eBPF

Data in motion

Watches sensitive data move across APIs, SaaS, containers and storage, no proxies or sidecars.

Payload flow mapping

Source → destination

Maps where data goes and who is responsible, read from payload, not logs.

GenAI egress

Shadow AI

Flags sensitive data leaving cloud workloads for unsanctioned LLM endpoints.

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The evidence
What CrowdStrike surfaces across your cloud estate
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Even at maximum licensing

Microsoft governs Microsoft 365. It doesn't see the cloud-native data plane.

Fully licensed, Microsoft Purview is the enforcement platform for Microsoft 365, and the only thing that writes a label Copilot will honour. But it is at-rest and content-centric: the cloud-native data plane, and data in motion, sit outside what it can see.

What safe Copilot actually requires from Microsoft
Microsoft 365 E5 Azure Information Protection P2 Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance Entra ID P2 Purview DSPM for AI

These unlock automatic sensitivity labelling, DLP, access reviews and AI risk assessment. They are the floor for a defensible rollout, not the finish line.

Capability
Microsoft, fully licensed
CrowdStrike adds
EstateWhere it can see
Strong inside Microsoft 365 and Azure; AWS, GCP, multi-cloud databases and containers sit outside its native reach.
Agentless discovery and LLM classification across cloud datastores (S3, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Azure Blob), including shadow data.
Data in motionAt rest vs in motion
At-rest and content-centric; does not observe data moving across cloud workloads, APIs or containers.
Watches sensitive data in motion at runtime via eBPF, across APIs, SaaS, containers and storage.
Flow mappingWhere data goes
No payload-level data-flow mapping outside the Microsoft estate.
Payload-based data-flow maps: source, destination and who is responsible for the movement.
Risky transfersReal-time detection
No runtime detection of risky cloud transfers.
Flags sensitive data to public S3, unencrypted egress and unauthenticated APIs the moment it happens.
GenAI egressShadow AI
Focus is Copilot and M365 AI apps; limited view of egress from cloud workloads.
Detects sensitive data leaving cloud workloads and APIs for GenAI tools and LLM endpoints.
PlatformConsolidation
Tied to the Microsoft 365 security stack.
One Falcon agent across endpoint, identity, cloud and SIEM; detections drive Fusion SOAR playbooks.
Why time-to-safe matters
Microsoft only: blind beyond Microsoft 365

Purview is at-rest and Microsoft-centric. The cloud-native data plane, data in motion at runtime, and GenAI egress all sit outside what it can see.

The cloud half of your AI risk never makes the list.
CrowdStrike + Purview: two planes, one taxonomy

CrowdStrike secures the cloud-native and data-in-motion plane; Purview governs Microsoft 365 and Copilot. A shared classification taxonomy joins them.

For a Falcon client, it's a platform extension, not a new vendor.
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The gap
Microsoft, fully licensed, and where it stops
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Better together

Two data planes. One classification taxonomy.

Neither tool replaces the other. CrowdStrike secures the cloud-native data plane, at rest and in motion; Purview governs the Microsoft 365 plane, labels, DLP and Copilot. Cornerstone joins them with a shared taxonomy, so a PII or IP label means the same in both.

CrowdStrike
Discover & watch

Cloud datastores at rest, plus sensitive data in motion at runtime.

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CrowdStrike + Purview
Shared taxonomy

One PII / PCI / IP classification, meaning the same in cloud and Microsoft 365.

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Purview
Govern M365

Labels, DLP, retention and Copilot governance inside Microsoft 365.

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Microsoft 365 + cloud
AI consumes safely

Copilot and connected AI draw only on governed, watched data.

⟲ CrowdStrike watches data in motion and GenAI egress continuously at runtime, streaming detections to Falcon SIEM and Fusion SOAR, so new risk is caught the moment it happens.
Above and beyond Microsoft

What CrowdStrike does that Microsoft can't.

Runtime data-in-motion

Falcon's eBPF sensor watches sensitive data move across APIs, SaaS, containers and storage, the DSPM that sees data in flight, not just at rest.

Payload data-flow mapping

Interactive maps of where sensitive data starts, where it goes and who moved it, read from payload, not logs.

GenAI & shadow-AI egress

Detects sensitive data leaving cloud workloads for unsanctioned LLM endpoints, before it trains someone else's model.

Native cloud datastores

Agentless scanning of S3, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB and Azure Blob, plus shadow data lurking in IaaS and PaaS.

Real-time risk detection

Public S3 writes, unencrypted egress and unauthenticated-API exposure flagged the moment they happen.

One Falcon platform

DSPM sits in the CNAPP beside CSPM, CIEM and CWP; detections drive Falcon SIEM and Fusion SOAR, with no new agent.

Shaun Struik
Your senior advisor

"We pair the right platform with senior, hands-on design, so you get an AI rollout that is safe, fast, and built for your team to run."

Shaun Struik · Director, Co-Founder · Cornerstone Cyber
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