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Nation’s leading AI + Microsoft Gold Partner | Experts in AI (All Core Platforms), Power BI, SharePoint, Teams & Fabric | AI Governance, Automation | 27 Years Transforming Enterprise Cloud and Now AI with Data-Driven Solutions | www.epcgroup.net Founded in 1997, EPC Group’s San Antonio team focuses on Microsoft AI, cloud migration, and Power BI solutions for public sector, healthcare & enterprise

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Vibe Slop + the Governance Gap Nobody Budgeted For (Vibe Coding Without Governance and Guardrails) 06/03/2026

Our Founder & Chief AI Architect, Errin O'Connor, just published a piece every CIO and CISO should read. 📢❗🚨

🔍It starts with a question a client asked him this year: "We're shipping faster than we ever have. So why does everything feel like it's held together with tape?"

The answer has a name now — "vibe slop" — and Errin breaks down what 29 years inside enterprise Microsoft environments has taught him about it:

→ The productivity gains from AI coding are real (~30% faster delivery).
→ So is the bill — bugs per PR up ~28%, incidents roughly tripling, and ~45% of AI-generated code carrying OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities.
→ The fix isn't a better model.

🔨 It's GOVERNANCE. 🛠

"The difference is never the model. It's the architecture you wrap around it."
— Errin O'Connor

Read Errin's full post here 👇
https://lnkd.in/dHUPAc_n

Vibe Slop + the Governance Gap Nobody Budgeted For (Vibe Coding Without Governance and Guardrails) Note: The screen shots I have enclosed in this article are from all of the major AI platforms we all love and would love to trust. AI-assisted coding is real and the productivity gains are not fake.

05/21/2026

🎯 The Engagement Operating Model is published and live.

Every CIO and CFO burned by a Microsoft consulting engagement knows the pattern — the senior expert sells the deal, then disappears. Junior consultants rotate in. Scope creeps. Change orders multiply. Go-live becomes a vendor handoff. ⚠️

EPC Group published a different standard. ⚡

📍 7 PHASES
Discover · Architect · Plan · Build · Validate · Deploy · Run

🎯 3 COMMITMENTS
→ One accountable program manager
→ Named artifacts at every phase
→ A senior Microsoft architect engaged from discovery through run state

🛠️ BUILT FOR
Power BI · Microsoft Fabric · Purview · Copilot · SharePoint · Azure · Dynamics 365 · Microsoft 365

29 years · 11,000+ Microsoft implementations · 70+ Fortune 500 engagements · All six Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations.

No junior bait-and-switch. No chaos at go-live. Just senior-led Microsoft delivery with named accountability. 🔒

📧 [email protected]
📞 (888) 381-9725
🌐 https://www.epcgroup.net/engagement-model

05/20/2026

Pu🚨 Your Microsoft Purview is lying to you.

80% of Microsoft 365 tenants are turned on — but never tuned. Labels missing. DLP blind to Copilot. DSPM for AI dormant.

Then Copilot turns on, and every gap becomes an exfiltration path. ⚠️

𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸. 𝗜𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁. ⚡

EPC Group's Cafeteria-Menu Purview & Copilot Security Package is built for the 90 days before a Copilot rollout:

🔹 Track 1 — Purview Hardening — from $7,500
🔹 Track 2 — Copilot Security Review
🔹 Track 3 — 30-Day M365 Tenant Hardening Accelerator — $35,000 fixed

29 years. 10,000+ Microsoft implementations. Small to Midsize organizations as well as Enterprise including the FRBNY · NASA · FBI · Pentagon · United Airlines · PepsiCo.

📧 [email protected]
📞 (888) 381-9725
🌐 https://www.epcgroup.net/contact

📘 https://www.epcgroup.net/microsoft-purview-compliance-enterprise-guide

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05/18/2026

⚠️ Stop buying roadmaps. Start deploying.

For 29 years, EPC Group has parachuted senior Microsoft architects into the engagements other firms got stuck on — Power BI deployments that stalled, Microsoft Fabric migrations still trapped in slide decks, SharePoint platforms running on 2013 architecture, Copilot rollouts with zero Purview governance, Azure landing zones that were designed and never deployed.

Big consulting firms sell roadmaps. ⚠️
EPC Group ships working software. ⚡

→ 29 years
→ 10,000+ Microsoft implementations
→ Senior architects only — Power BI · Microsoft Fabric · SharePoint · Azure · Copilot Security
→ FRBNY · NASA · FBI · Pentagon · United Airlines · PepsiCo
→ All six Microsoft Solutions Partner Designations
→ G2 Leader · 100 NPS · Top 5 Market Presence

Watch the 90-second brand film 👇

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📞 (888) 381-9725
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04/30/2026

🎯 17 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK at Gartner's Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit…

EPC Group Founder Errin O'Connor keynoted a workshop on SharePoint governance.

The year? 2009. The topic? Governance at a time when most orgs were still deciding if collaboration platforms were enterprise-grade.

🎤 The 5 pillars he presented:

🔐 Identity
📋 Classification
🔄 Lifecycle
🚫 Oversharing controls
👔 Executive sponsorship

⚡ Fast forward to 2026…

Those EXACT 5 pillars now run every Microsoft Copilot readiness audit, 47-point M365 Tenant Security Review, Microsoft Fabric workspace governance engagement, and Virtual Chief AI Officer service EPC Group delivers.

🔁 The platform changed. The discipline didn't.

📊 Today's reality:
🚨 80% of M365 tenants → misconfigured
🚨 73% of enterprises → unauthorized AI tool usage

🏆 The credentials:
✅ 29 years in business
✅ 11,000+ enterprise engagements
✅ 4-time G2 Leader
✅ Perfect NPS of 100
✅ 4 Microsoft Press books
✅ Federal Reserve TARP eDiscovery
✅ Vivek Kundra 25-Point IT Reform advisor

🔒 This is the 17-year governance through-line no competitor founded after 2015 can replicate.

04/29/2026

🚨 Want AI in your Power BI? Here’s what actually works.

Most organizations are being told:

👉 “Just turn on Copilot”

But relying on a single AI model introduces risk:

⚠️ No cross-validation
⚠️ Hallucinated outputs
⚠️ Bad decisions at the executive level

🔥 EPC Group delivers a different approach:

Multi-AI Power BI Architecture

→ Multiple models working together
→ Cross-validated results
→ Enterprise-ready analytics

⚡ Real-time answers
💬 Natural language queries
✅ No DAX. No SQL.

🏆 1,500+ Power BI implementations
🤖 700+ AI solutions

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04/23/2026

🚨 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝘅 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.

Copilot is searching EVERYTHING across your Microsoft 365 environment:

🚨 CRM Data
📂 SharePoint
💬 Teams
☁️ OneDrive
📧 Exchange / Outlook

If your permissions, labels, and DLP policies are misconfigured…

🚨 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱.

🎬 This is Video 3 of 3 in EPC Group’s Copilot Security Series.

👉 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗫.

In this video, EPC Group walks through a practical Copilot remediation plan:

🔍 𝗔 𝟳‑𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁

– Permissions & oversharing
– Data governance & sensitivity labels
– DLP & compliance
– Security posture & Conditional Access
– Network readiness
– Change management
– Use cases & adoption

🏷️ 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘀 + 𝗗𝗟𝗣 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.

🔐 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 & 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹.

📋 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗘𝗣𝗖 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽’𝘀 𝟰𝟳‑𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 & 𝗠𝟯𝟲𝟱 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀.

EPC Group helps organizations:
🔍 Identify what Copilot can actually access

🔐 Secure Microsoft 365 permissions at scale

⚙️ Remediate exposure across SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive & Exchange

🧭 Put Copilot under a real AI governance framework

💬 Is your organization truly ready to run Copilot in production?

♻️ Share this with your CIO, CISO, or Microsoft 365 owner.

04/22/2026

🚨 Microsoft wants you to deploy Copilot.
They don’t want you to ask these questions.

Here are 5 risks we see in almost EVERY Microsoft 365 environment:

1️⃣ Copilot uses ACTUAL permissions — not intended ones
2️⃣ No Copilot-specific access control
3️⃣ Sensitivity labels exist — but aren’t enforced
4️⃣ Teams conversations become searchable
5️⃣ Microsoft’s “readiness” guidance is incomplete

👉 What does that mean in real environments?

⚠️ Overexposed SharePoint sites
⚠️ Sensitive data accessible across teams
⚠️ Users seeing information they shouldn’t

🚨 We see these issues in EVERY tenant we audit.

This is Video 2 in our Copilot Security Series.

👉 If Copilot is enabled… this risk already exists.

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💬 Which one of these concerns you the most?
♻️ Share this with your CIO or CISO.

04/21/2026

🚨 Most companies using Microsoft Copilot are making a dangerous mistake…

They’re skipping governance. And they don’t even realize it.

What Co-pilot can instantly expose:

⚠️ sensitive SharePoint documents
⚠️ internal Teams conversations
⚠️ outdated permissions
⚠️ executive-level data

This isn’t a Co-pilot problem. It’s a DATA + ARCHITECTURE problem.

At EPC Group, we fix this BEFORE it becomes a breach:

✔️ Microsoft 365 + Co-pilot strategy
✔️ SharePoint governance & permissions
✔️ Enterprise AI architecture
✔️ Risk mitigation frameworks

5,200+ Microsoft implementations. 28+ years. | We don’t just deploy AI... We make sure it doesn’t break your business.

👇 Are you already using Copilot — or still evaluating the risk?

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