Microsoft Purview is a unified platform that helps organizations effectively meet their data governance and compliance requirements. This service helps organizations comply with legal and regulatory requirements while ensuring data security.
What is Microsoft Purview?
Microsoft Purview is a set of services designed to automate data governance and compliance control. It provides a wide range of capabilities to find, classify, protect, and track an organization’s data.
Purview covers the following key areas:
Data Discovery – Automatically identifies where data is stored and in what form.
Compliance and Regulatory Compliance Management – Ensures compliance with international regulatory regulations such as GDPR, ISO 27001, HIPAA.
Risk and Security Management – Detects unauthorized use and leaks of data.
Data Governance – Creates policies for classifying, sharing, and protecting data.
Microsoft Purview Core Services
- Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
🔹 Assesses an organization’s compliance status and provides recommendations for improvement.
🔹 Analyzes compliance with standards such as GDPR, NIST, and ISO 27001.
🔹 Reduces workload by automating compliance activities. - Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
🔹 Prevents unauthorized data leakage.
🔹 Protects sensitive data in environments such as email, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams.
🔹 Blocks and alerts data sharing that does not meet established policies. - Microsoft Purview Information Protection
🔹 Creates policies for classifying and encrypting data.
🔹 Identifies sensitive data categories for the organization and applies automatic protection measures.
🔹 Prevents unauthorized data distribution by users. - Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
🔹 Detects potential threats by analyzing abnormal employee activities.
🔹 Identify internal data theft, unauthorized access, and breaches.
🔹 Provides real-time alerts and investigation tools. - Microsoft Purview Audit
🔹 Records and tracks all activities within the organization.
🔹 Facilitates internal and external audits by showing the history of data changes.
🔹 Allows you to analyze access permissions and user behavior.
Why is Microsoft Purview Important?
🔹 Helps the organization comply with compliance requirements.
🔹 Increases data security and prevents unauthorized access.
🔹 Automates data management and reduces workload.
🔹 Enables you to take preventive measures against threats and risks.