Most RIAs already own Microsoft 365. Far fewer have configured it to do the one thing the SEC now expects it to do: enforce, evidence, and retain the safeguards your written policies promise. The gap between “we have M365” and “we can demonstrate the safeguards rule to an examiner” is almost entirely a deployment problem — the right services, licensed correctly, switched on and documented.
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