Don Kennedy
Purview Data Security Engineer (Currently on Hold Due to Internal Logistics and Alignments) @Wellstar Health System
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WORK HISTORY
Purview Data Security Engineer (Currently on Hold Due to Internal Logistics and Alignments) @Wellstar Health System
Atlanta, GA, US
As a Security and compliance specialist with hands on expertise implementing and managing Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Information Rights Management (IRM), and Communication Compliance across regulated healthcare environments. Experienced in designing classification and labeling frameworks aligned to HIPAA, and organizational privacy requirements, including the deployment and tuning of all relevant Sensitive Information Types (SITs) for protected health information (PHI), financial data, and identity based risk. Adept at partnering with clinical, administrative, and security teams to reduce data handling risks, strengthen compliance posture, and ensure secure collaboration across M365 workloads.• Purview Information Protection Labels• Designed and deployed sensitivity labels and label policies to classify and protect PHI, clinical documentation, patient communications, and internal healthcare records.• Implemented encryption, content marking, and access restrictions using Purview Information Protection to enforce least privilege access across M365.• Built automated labeling rules leveraging SITs to ensure consistent protection of regulated healthcare data.• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)• Configured and optimized Microsoft Purview DLP policies for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and endpoint devices to prevent unauthorized sharing of PHI and confidential patient data.• Tuned DLP rules to reduce false positives while maintaining strict compliance with HIPAA/PHIPA requirements.• Implemented incident alerts, policy tips, and user education workflows to improve frontline staff awareness of data handling risks.• Information Rights Management (IRM)• Integrated IRM with clinical workflows to protect discharge summaries, lab reports, and patient identifiable data.• Communication Compliance• Deployed Communication Compliance policies to monitor and mitigate risks
EDUCATION
Eastern College
Associate's degree, Computer Science
ABOUT DON KENNEDY
Don Kennedy is a consultant with more than 26 years of experience in analysis, design integration, implementation, administration, maintenance and support of various networking and information systems technology in large to medium size infrastructures. He has performed numerous roles including Azure Cloud Architect\\Engineer, M365/Office365 Engineer/Security Engineer, Microsoft Purview Engineer, Sr. Active Directory Resource, Sr. Infrastructure and Operations Specialist. He has completed various projects for clients from both the public and private sectors in design, integration, implementation, administration, maintenance and support involving a variety of different networking system technology vendors including and not limited to, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, and Symantec in and with various hardware and system infrastructures including Dell EMC SAN, Hitachi SAN, HP MSA, EVA SAN RAID Arrays, Dell, HP and IBM servers, Dell, HP and IBM Blades and Blade Chassis, Brocade switches, Cisco, Nortel and APC. He holds the following industry recognized certifications, Azure Fundamentals, MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) and CNA (Certified Netware Administrator). He is also incorporated and holds a government secret level security clearance.
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