Shown as a percentage in Compliance Manager, it grows as improvement actions are finished, with each worth points according to risk; mandatory preventative actions count most. The Microsoft 365 data protection baseline gives the starting point.
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Terms in this definition
- Compliance Manager
Helps an organisation measure itself against regulations and standards: ready-made assessments test its controls, suggested improvement actions show what to fix, and a compliance score records progress. Part of Microsoft Purview.
- Risk
As ISO 31000 puts it, how uncertainty affects objectives; that effect can be good or bad.
- COUNT
A DAX function returning how many non-blank numbers, dates or text values a column contains. Boolean columns need COUNTA instead, and for counting the rows of a table COUNTROWS is the better choice.
- Data Protection Baseline
The ready-made assessment Compliance Manager gives every subscription, which sets your first compliance score. Most controls in it come from ISO and NIST CSF, with some taken from GDPR and FedRAMP.
Related terms
- Microsoft 365 data protection baseline
Compliance Manager's starting assessment, included for all organisations at no extra cost. Its controls come mostly from NIST CSF and ISO and cover data protection and governance, and your first compliance score is calculated from it.