Balancing AI Innovation and Data Security Risk Within Public Sector

As businesses increasingly adopt AI tools, the benefits in terms of productivity and efficiency are hard to ignore. But with great power comes great responsibility.

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Nadine Lalor 3 December 2024

AI can drive efficiencies, streamline processes, and empower employees to deliver higher-impact work. However, with these advancements come unique challenges, especially in handling sensitive information and adhering to strict compliance standards.

Recent findings from the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) underscore the need for a balanced approach: harnessing AI’s benefits while managing security risks. This report reinforces what we advise our clients: before scaling AI, it’s critical to establish robust safeguards.

In this eBook, we explore how our proven framework with Microsoft 365 Copilot can help you unlock AI’s potential within the public sector while staying secure and compliant. Get your guide to an AI journey that puts innovation and governance hand-in-hand.

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Our mission is to make work better. We empower employees to enjoy work more – using Microsoft tools to make work more productive, collaborative and connected.We work with large organisations and the public sector to:- enable teams and individuals to adopt new ways of working through our organisational change and transformation campaigns; - help leaders, communications, and HR teams to uplift culture and engage staff by building integrated digital workplaces that use the latest features in SharePoint Online and the Microsoft Viva suite;- create a more secure and compliant environment to better manage, retain and protect their information landscape; and boost productivity with automation, digitisation, and app modernisation.From design, to technical build, our team of experts use their broad range of skills across project delivery, cloud strategy, user experience design, governance, agile development, change management, and security to help our clients get the most of technology. We are proud to be named the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year, Australia and 2022 Global Microsoft Partner of the Year for Employee Experience. Our ProductsBrief Connect - Briefing Management Platform ToolBrief Connect is a briefing management platform, bringing communications from multiple tracking systems together, creating a transparent and consistent process for briefings to be managed in. Briefings can be created, tracked and approved all in one place, with an interactive and personal dashboard. Brief Connect is built on top of Microsoft 365, utilising the powerful document management in SharePoint Online, the Power Automate workflow engine, and Azure AD security controls.Board Connect - #1 Board Management Software for Microsoft TeamsBoard Connect is a Microsoft Teams application that brings documentation and meeting details related to board meetings into one central location, where it’s easier to collaborate.

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