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What is Syntex?

“It’s like Gandalf shows up and automagic-intelligently trains SharePoint to read your mountains and mountains of documents, images, and texts. His magic gives you the power of analyzing and identifying content at speeds not achievable by middle earth until now.” 

Microsoft, combining multiple technologies, has created the ultimate content analytics ingestion engine. Syntex leverages Azure OCR (Azure Optical Character Recognition) to create a set of trainings/rules to read document types, text, and images. It also supports AI models so you can continue to teach it what you want it to know.

Why do you need Syntex?

This game-changing technology is the key you need to migrate large information stores and assure the data can be leveraged, secured, and compliant. If you currently have SharePoint and your file shares were simply “lifted and shifted” the Syntex trumpet is calling your name. That stated, Syntex comes with a caveat: you need a person who has been properly trained. Full disclosure, Ovatio is part of the early adopter Syntex program, or as we like to think of it, Syntex Wizard Training (Just to be clear, it’s the good kind of wizard, not the Saruman kind of wizard with long, creepy nails.)

What’s a use case for Syntex?

Let’s say you have 50+ GB of data on-premises in older servers you want to move into the cloud but Oy! so much of that data is unidentified and would require applying policies MANUALLY! Syntex is the solution you need to make moving your data off the older servers faster and more accurate than ever. And the value does not stop there – you can weave Syntex into existing business processes to help enhance existing workflows. That is unless you WANT to spend hours manually going through data to apply policies because, well, you’ve binge-watched everything on Netflix during this pandemic and are absolutely bored.

How do you start with Syntex?

Firstly, the data must be in SharePoint. Not in SharePoint? No problem. A migration can be performed with the right tools, making the process more seamless. Let us know if you need help with that.

“Like a protector with you at all times, keeping his eyes peeled for any potential bullies that will give you trouble.”

What is Defender?

Defender is Microsoft’s umbrella family of security threat protection tools covering four major areas: your identities, endpoints, cloud applications/data, and documents/email. Using the Defender family moves you toward a single interface for managing security aggregating where it sees vulnerabilities across the four areas. It can intelligently and proactively correlate separate alerts/signals, “sniffing” out what could add up to be an attack. In other words, it’s way smarter than a human. (Well, maybe except for that super-annoying smart kid from elementary school who was the teacher’s pet.)

Why do you need Defender?

This is a superior threat detection stack that will save you time and money. Superior because it’s built upon the very AI tools Microsoft runs itself and its customizable to follow your individual regulatory compliance rules. It keeps up with the ever-evolving landscape of complex threats by using AI to connect the anomaly dots of suspicious activities. It saves you time and money because it provides streamlined threat mitigation management. You no longer need to juggle as many security tools for your vector points and avoid becoming oversaturated or desensitized by low-priority alerts/signals from tools such as Symantec, Proof Point, CheckPoint, etc. Using a hodge-podge of disparate tools leaves you with wide gaps in your security system. This is in stark contrast to the Defender family of threat detection tools; when using this umbrella of solutions, you get a total cohesive system – the tools are specifically to work in tandem with one other.

What’s a use case for Defender?

Let’s say a nefarious individual runs a scan of your network. Defender identifies the IP address the scan originates from. That same IP address then attempts to login and fails. Defender will look at those two events and begin to detect a larger attack coming.

How do you start using Defender?

Perform a risk and fit assessment of the four major areas. Depending upon where there is risk and what is needed, you can then determine which Defender tools are a good fit. Making sure you only deploy what you require and avoid overpaying for what you don’t need is also important to your business’s bottom line. Not quite sure where to start? We can help guide you through an assessment and answer any questions, simply give us a shout.