Microsoft Copilot Consulting

Copilot surfaces whatever your permissions allow. We fix the permissions first, then run deployment, governance, and adoption.
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Definition

What is Microsoft Copilot consulting?

Microsoft Copilot consulting prepares a Microsoft 365 tenant for Copilot and runs the rollout: readiness assessment, security configuration, governance policy, deployment, and adoption. The readiness work decides the outcome. Copilot answers with anything a user's permissions can reach, so years of permission sprawl, stale sharing links, and unlabeled sensitive files surface in the first week of use. BD Emerson treats Copilot readiness as a Microsoft 365 security and data hygiene exercise: we find and fix oversharing, apply sensitivity labels, and set data loss prevention policy before the first license is assigned, then measure adoption against the use cases that justified the spend.

Services

What our Copilot consulting includes

Copilot readiness assessment
Data security remediation
Copilot deployment
Security configuration
Governance policy
Adoption and enablement

Copilot readiness assessment

We inventory permission sprawl, anyone links, stale sites, and unlabeled sensitive content across SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, then score what Copilot would expose today. You get a prioritized remediation plan with owners and effort estimates.

Data security remediation

We fix what the assessment found: right-size site and group permissions, retire legacy sharing links, quarantine orphaned content, and apply sensitivity labels through Microsoft Purview so confidential material stays out of Copilot answers.

Copilot deployment

We handle licensing, pilot group selection, tenant configuration, and staged rollout. Departments are sequenced by data risk and use-case value, so early wins compound instead of surprising the help desk.

Security configuration

Restricted SharePoint Search, Purview data loss prevention policies, audit logging, and Copilot interaction retention are configured to your risk tolerance. What the model can read, and what users paste into it, stays bounded and logged.

Governance policy

We write an acceptable use policy people actually follow, data handling rules for AI output, and a review cadence that keeps labels and permissions from drifting back. Governance holds after go-live because every control has a named owner.

Adoption and enablement

Role-based training covers the prompts that matter for each team. Usage analytics run against the business case, and a feedback loop retires weak use cases while scaling the ones that pay.

Our approach

Our approach

01

Assess before you license

The readiness assessment runs first, on real tenant data. You learn what Copilot would surface today and what it costs to fix before committing to seats.

02

Fix the permissions

Remediation runs in waves: oversharing first, then sensitivity labels, then data loss prevention. Each wave is verified with the same scans that found the problem, so progress is measured rather than asserted.

03

Deploy in stages

We pilot with a group whose data is already clean, prove the use cases, then expand department by department. Rollout speed follows remediation, and never the other way around.

04

Govern and measure

Policy, logging, and usage analytics keep the tenant clean and the spend justified. Quarterly reviews catch permission drift while it is still small.

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Rolling out Copilot this year?

Speak with BD Emerson about a readiness assessment: what Copilot would surface in your tenant today, and what it takes to fix before launch.

Our Advantage

Why BD Emerson for Microsoft Copilot

Security firm first

We run Microsoft 365 security, compliance, and privacy engagements year-round. Copilot readiness is the same discipline applied to an AI rollout: permissions, labels, data loss prevention, and evidence.

Readiness before licensing

We tell you what a safe rollout costs before you buy seats. If your tenant is not ready, you hear it from us first, with a priced fix list attached.

Governance that holds

Policies ship with owners, logging, and a review cadence. Six months after go-live, labels and permissions still match what your reviewers approved at launch.

Reviews

What our customers say

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

Great consulting firms for scaling security, compliance, and appsec.

Outstanding partner in Technical and Cyber Due Diligence

Appsec maturity and application hardening.

BD Emerson helped us simplfiy our compliance management.

BD Emerson did such a phenomenal job. What started as privacy support quickly became a full partnership across compliance, engineering, and even business operations. They’re embedded with our team. They understand our product. They move fast. They’re simply invaluable.

Adam Ben Jacobs

CTO @ OneStep GPS

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

We had a hard time finding the right company to partner with in support of our compliance journey. Some vendors sell the idea that they do the work, but then you end up doing everything. The ambiguity is what killed our last project. BD Emerson’s team has such great technical knowledge and understands the standard so well that they made us comfortable with moving fast. This has led to us closing major enterprise customers that were previously out of reach because of security and compliance.

Tom Watkins

CEO @ AMI AssetTrack

Lead an enterprise initiative to overhaul the organization's technology stack from ecommerce, corporate tech, and corporate security.

Supported ISO 42001 exercise and served as internal auditor.

Rubrik's privacy and compliance team began with the backbone of BD Emerson. BD Emerson supported building out the privacy program, GRC (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC, FedRAMP), and the appsec function.

We needed a partner who could move quickly, without sacrificing precision. BD Emerson brought the expertise, structure, and speed we were looking for. Their team became an extension of ours, embedding themselves across the organization, guiding us step by step, and giving us confidence in areas we hadn’t tackled before. The internal audit they conducted was so detailed that even the external auditors called it out. Achieving ISO 27001 with zero nonconformities says everything you need to know about the quality of the partnership.

Walid Souilem

CTO @ FGI Worldwide

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

BD Emerson didn’t just help us meet our compliance goals; they integrated security and privacy into the core of our operations. I highly recommend BD Emerson to anyone seeking SOC 2 or GDPR compliance, or simply looking to enhance their security team and boost customer trust in their product and services. Their dedication and expertise have been invaluable to our success.

Padraig Reilly

CEO, Boxcore

BD Emerson understood our business requirements and worked side-by-side with us. The policies and controls we developed together not only meet compliance standards but improve how we operate day to day.

Matt Meierdierks

IT Manager, Lincoln Industries

From day one, BD Emerson brought urgency, clarity, and a sharp understanding of what truly matters to our business — earning and keeping customer trust. They went beyond helping us meet compliance requirements; they helped build a foundation for secure, scalable growth. That kind of partnership is rare.

Jason Marker

CEO @ LifeLenz

BD Emerson didn’t just help us pass an audit—they helped us build a sustainable culture of security.

Alexey Indeev

CTO Spare

BD Emerson was essential in helping our company navigate the daunting process of leveling up our security infrastructure. BD Emerson’s impressive expertise and confidence throughout the process helped our team exceed HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 1 standards quickly, distilling what can be an overwhelming process into a streamlined, organized effort. From day one they began adding value and getting us on course. With their help we delivered on a massive security overhaul with both extreme efficiency and thorough attention to details. Because of BD Emerson’s support, we’ve increased our clients’ trust in Titan Intake and the life-changing work it accomplishes for those seeking specialist referrals.

Patrick Bruce

CEO, Titan Intake

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Can Copilot see everything in our tenant?

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