Govern 365

Govern 365 is a solution designed to provide secure collaboration, compliance, and content AI for Microsoft 365. The product is targeted at small to large enterprises, with a focus on meeting the needs of legal professionals, IP attorneys, litigation attorneys, corporate attorneys, and professionals in mergers and acquisitions. According to the vendor, Govern 365 offers a range of features to enhance collaboration efforts, protect sensitive information, create virtual data rooms, limit litigation liability, and ensure compliance.

Key Features

Secure Collaboration With Microsoft 365: According to the vendor, Govern 365 automates the creation of SharePoint and Teams workspaces for secure collaboration, leveraging Microsoft Purview for encryption and Rights Management. The product also offers powerful analytics with compliance capabilities.

Protect Sensitive Information: The vendor states that Govern 365 utilizes Microsoft Purview to automatically secure sensitive information, safeguard Intellectual Property (IP) with Sensitivity Label driven encryption, synchronize label permissions with access control lists (ACLs), and ensure data sovereignty by keeping files in the user's own tenant.

Create Virtual Data Rooms in Microsoft 365 Teams & SharePoint: Govern 365 enables the creation of virtual data rooms (VDRs) within Microsoft 365 for secure collaboration. According to the vendor, the product provides automatic content protection for uploaded content, allows secure collaboration with internal and external users, offers workspace and access management capabilities, and provides workspace analytics for audit log-level user activity detail reporting.

Limit Litigation Liability & Compliance Exposure: The vendor claims that Govern 365 helps manage content lifecycle with workspace recertification and smart disposition capabilities. The product also offers a simple and flexible deployment and setup process.

Unified Directory: According to the vendor, Govern 365 offers a simple and easy-to-use interface that combines all the necessary functionality in one place, designed specifically for Microsoft Teams. The product allows users to visualize content responsibility, find workspaces quickly using full-text search, and provides a guided step-by-step process for requesting new workspaces.

Automatic Content Protection: Govern 365 automatically encrypts uploaded content using organization-wide security protection or security-isolated (VDR) protection. According to the vendor, the product provides no-touch content protection throughout the entire content lifecycle and maintains label permissions synchronized with workspace access control in Microsoft 365.

Supplier & Customer Collaboration: Govern 365 enables secure collaboration with customers, suppliers, and partners using VDRs. The vendor claims that the product helps protect sensitive information and Intellectual Property (IP) across the supply chain, supporting use cases such as product development, mergers and acquisitions, manufacturing suppliers, legal proceedings, audits, and board communications.

Workspace & Access Manager: According to the vendor, Govern 365 gives workspace owners complete control over settings and user permissions. The product allows for easy addition of workspace owners, members, and visitors, and enables updates to workspace metadata and sharing settings with a simple click.

Workspace Analytics: Govern 365 provides per-user audit activity within VDR workspaces, tracking file downloads, edits, sharing operations, and label changes.

Flexible Templates & Forms: According to the vendor, Govern 365 guides workspace requestors through a well-defined process with customizable forms and fields. The product allows for the attachment of policy-driven configurations for data governance and compliance reporting, defines form fields of multiple types for integration and event-driven control, and makes form fields visible in the Unified Directory and available during compliance reporting.