Microsoft Purview: all-in-one for data governance in 365

Organisations using Microsoft 365 Enterprise licenses can rely on Microsoft Purview for data security. Microsoft Purview is an all-in-one cloud-native platform that helps secure data stored on the Microsoft 365 platform. It integrates well with other Microsoft security products like Azure and Sentinel. Purview has intelligent capabilities which identify issues and trigger alerts if needed. Purview has the following capabilities:

• Data Governance

  A Data Catalog helps trace sensitive data using search functionality with filters based on glossary terms, classifications, and sensitivity labels.

  Data Estate Insights overviews an organisation's data estate and helps identify gaps to improve governance.
  

  A Data Map provides a unified illustration of an organisation's and consumer's data origin and lineage, enabling access provisioning.

  Data Policies are central, cloud-based experiences facilitating access management to data sources and datasets.

  Data Sharing allows control over data sharing both internally and externally.

• Data Security

  Data Loss Prevention (DLP) secures sensitive from unauthorised access across apps, endpoints, and storage.Information Barriers (IB) limit communication and collaboration between group users within an organisation and help adhere to regulations such as conflicts of interest.
  
  Information Protection is a tool with business-wide applications that allows the discovery, identification, classification, and protection of sensitive data using sensitivity labels.
  
  Insider Risk Management helps protect an organisation from growing insider risk factors, including data theft and leaks.

• Risk & Compliance

  Auditing Solutions offer an all-in-one approach to help organisations promptly respond to security incidents, internal investigations, and forensic inquiries.
  
  Communication Compliance helps maintain safe and appropriate communication across business channels. It does so by detecting sensitive content.
  
  Compliance Managers can automatically assess and manage compliance. It helps inventory data protection risks, implement controls, stay up-to-date with regulations and certifications, and report to auditors.
  
  Data Lifecycle Management uses retention labels and policies to classify and govern business data to meet relevant legal and regulatory obligations.
  
  eDiscovery streamlines investigations by managing business data through end-to-end workflows.
  
  Records Management helps organisations manage regulatory, legal, and critical records.

Microsoft Purview can help you save costs in multiple ways. It reduces the need for manual and custom data discovery and classification, eliminating the need for maintaining personal systems and Excel-based solutions. You only pay for what you use, and you can scan SQL Servers and Power BI tenants at no extra cost. For more information about the pricing details of Microsoft Purview, please refer to the pricing page. Or not sure where to start, or want us to help? Contact us.