Soleno Therapeutics, Inc
Case Study
VDR-Grade Security and Deal Rooms, Natively in Microsoft 365
Background
Soleno Therapeutics needed a secure way to collaborate with external investors and other stakeholders while protecting highly confidential business information. As a Microsoft 365-based organization, they wanted to leverage their existing Microsoft investment and maintain complete control over sensitive documents, permissions, audit trails, and compliance within their own tenant.
Challenges
Before implementing Govern 365, Soleno Therapeutics faced several challenges in securely sharing confidential information:
- Traditional Virtual Data Room (VDR) solutions required sensitive documents to be copied into third-party repositories.
- Managing separate security and governance models increased administrative complexity.
- Maintaining compliance, permissions, and audit trails across multiple platforms created operational overhead.
- The organization wanted to establish secure Deal Rooms for due diligence and investor collaboration without moving data outside Microsoft 365.
- Earlier versions of the platform required additional administrative effort when provisioning access for multiple external users due to intentionally rigorous security controls.
Solution
Govern 365 enabled Soleno Therapeutics to establish secure, VDR-grade Deal Rooms natively within Microsoft 365. By leveraging existing Microsoft technologies-including SharePoint, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Purview, and Information Rights Management-the platform allowed confidential documents to remain within the organization's Microsoft 365 tenant while providing secure external collaboration.
With Govern 365, Soleno Therapeutics was able to:
- Create secure Deal Rooms for investors and external stakeholders.
- Apply granular access controls and permissions.
- Maintain complete audit trails and compliance visibility.
- Protect confidential information using Microsoft-native rights management.
- Deliver a familiar Microsoft 365 experience without requiring users to work in a separate third-party VDR platform.
Benefits
Govern 365 helped Soleno Therapeutics securely collaborate with external stakeholders while strengthening governance and simplifying administration.
- Data Sovereignty: Sensitive data remained within the organization's Microsoft 365 tenant, eliminating the need to replicate information to third-party Virtual Data Room (VDR) platforms.
- Enhanced Security & Compliance: Leveraged existing Microsoft 365 security, governance, and information protection capabilities to strengthen the organization's security posture.
- Simplified Administration: Reduced operational complexity through a single, Microsoft-native governance model.
- Complete Visibility: Maintained centralized permissions, audit logging, and compliance management for improved oversight and control.
- Secure External Collaboration: Enabled investors and external stakeholders to work within well-governed Deal Rooms while protecting confidential information.
- Improved User Experience: Allowed employees to continue working within familiar Microsoft 365 applications without adopting a separate platform.
- Future-Ready Governance: Positioned the organization to further standardize SharePoint provisioning and strengthen Microsoft 365 governance through Govern 365's evolving automation capabilities.
By keeping sensitive content, governance, and compliance entirely within Microsoft 365, Soleno Therapeutics was able to support secure due diligence and external collaboration while reducing security risk and operational complexity.
