Microsoft Purview data compliance
Manage data risk, meet regulatory requirements, and respond effectively to legal obligations.
Overview
Manage compliance across your organization
Help your organization stay compliant and reduce risk across platforms, devices, AI apps, and agents with one unified solution.
- Ensure AI interactions meet your organization’s compliance needs from managing retention and regulatory requirements to enabling inclusion in content searches for security events, forensic analysis, and internal investigations.
- Stay current with regulations, certifications and industry specific requirements with Purview’s unified approach. Easily manage reports and policies that govern how data is collected and used.
- Provide a holistic approach to investigating and mitigating internal and legal investigations. Discover relevant data and get the insights you need to respond quickly and confidently.
- Quickly detect, capture and take remediation actions for Copilot interactions, email, and Microsoft Teams communications that do not meet organizational compliance policies.
- Microsoft Purview Audit provides crucial event data that can help you investigate possible breaches and determine the scope of compromise.
- Retain audit records for one year with the option to retain for up to 10 years to meet your organization’s obligations.
- Get a dynamic bandwidth quota to access your auditing data.
- Locate critical data quickly and with precision using rich search criteria across Microsoft 365 data sources and AI apps within your tenant.
- Help ensure defensibility with identification and preservation of relevant content.
- Surface the most relevant content by validating and refining search results before exporting
- Efficiently classify, retain, review, dispose, and manage Microsoft 365 and AI app content.
- Use intelligent machine learning capabilities to classify content and automatically apply appropriate policies.
- Conduct disposition reviews, get proof of disposal, and meet recordkeeping obligations.
- Transform compliance from a manual process into a strategic advantage. Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager helps organizations streamline regulatory requirements through guided assessments, automated evidence collection, and built-in recommendations—reducing audit complexity, improving operational efficiency, and strengthening compliance readiness.
- Stay ahead of evolving regulations with more than 320 pre-built assessment templates aligned to global regulations, industry standards, and cybersecurity frameworks. Simplify control mapping, reduce duplicate efforts, and accelerate compliance initiatives across multicloud and hybrid environments.
- Gain real-time visibility into your compliance performance with Compliance Score, control tracking, risk insights, and continuous assessments. Quickly identify gaps, prioritize remediation efforts, and demonstrate progress to auditors, regulators, and executive stakeholders with confidence.
- Use machine learning to detect sensitive or inappropriate content shared across Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, Copilot, and non-Microsoft sources.
- Identify and take action on potentially risky messages using built-in remediation workflows.
- With privacy built-in by design, protect end-user identification with pseudonymization, role-based access control, admin explicit opt-in of users, and audit trails.
Capabilities
Proactively protect your organization with Microsoft Purview data compliance solutions
Investigate, mitigate and respond to corporate and regional regulations with a unified data compliance solution
Audit
Audit provides crucial event data that can help customers investigate security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance obligations.
eDiscovery
Enables organizations to search, preserve, and export Microsoft 365 data for legal, compliance, and regulatory investigations.
Data Lifecycle Management
Manage risk and liability by keeping only what you need and deleting what you don’t need across your digital estate.
Compliance Manager
Stay ahead of changing regulatory requirements with a centralized compliance management solution. Leverage over 320 customizable assessments to monitor controls, reduce compliance risk, strengthen audit readiness, and demonstrate regulatory alignment across your digital estate.
Communication Compliance
Surface communication risks like harassment, threats, or sharing of sensitive information with recommended policy actions.
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Integrations
Simplify compliance across your data estate
Maximize your existing Microsoft Security investments with integrated capabilities that work natively across Microsoft Security, Microsoft 365, and beyond.
Microsoft Purview data security
Protect sensitive data across your environment with integrated capabilities that help you discover and reduce data risk, safeguard data across AI apps and agents, respond to incidents faster and strengthen your security posture.
Microsoft Purview data governance
Manage, understand, and govern your data with confidence. Maximize the value of your data estate with an AI-powered, business-friendly, and unified approach.
Microsoft Security Copilot
Brings AI-powered summarization and investigation support to eDiscovery and Communication Compliance, helping analysts surface insights, triage issues, and move cases forward faster.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Meet regulatory requirements, maintain compliance, and govern Copilot use.
KEY STATISTICS
The case for modernization
For many organizations, managing compliance and privacy is inefficient and time consuming, which increases the risk of regulatory fines or failing an audit.
Plans and pricing
Explore the Microsoft Purview Suite
Get Microsoft Purview data compliance capabilities as part of the Purview Suite to help protect sensitive data, manage risk, and support compliance.
Microsoft Purview Suite
$12.00
user/month, paid yearly
(Annual subscription—auto renews)
Requires: Microsoft 365 E3; or Office 365 E3 and Enterprise Mobility + Security E3.
Requires: Microsoft 365 E3; or Office 365 E3 and Enterprise Mobility + Security E3.
(Annual subscription—auto renews)
Requires: Microsoft 365 E3; or Office 365 E3 and Enterprise Mobility + Security E3.
Requires: Microsoft 365 E3; or Office 365 E3 and Enterprise Mobility + Security E3.
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Includes Microsoft Purview capabilities to unify data security and compliance and help your organization prevent data loss and manage risks.
Features:
Features:
- Data loss prevention
- Information protection
- Insider risk management
- Audit
- eDiscovery
- Communication compliance
- Data lifecycle management
- Compliance manager
- Records management
- Protection for Microsoft 365 Copilot data
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Microsoft Purview data governance
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Resource library
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Resource library
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Gain insights into the latest data security advancements, including expert guidance and solutions.
Blogs
Data compliance news
Discover new product announcements and industry best practices for data compliance.
Deployment resources
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Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
- Microsoft Purview data compliance helps organizations manage compliance risk, meet regulatory requirements, and respond to legal obligations with integrated capabilities for audit, eDiscovery, communication compliance, compliance management, records management, and data lifecycle management.
- Microsoft Purview data compliance includes audit, communication compliance, compliance manager, data lifecycle management, eDiscovery, and records management. These capabilities work together to help organizations manage risk, support investigations, retain and govern content, and meet regulatory requirements.
- Microsoft Purview brings together related compliance capabilities in a unified experience. This data compliance page provides the holistic overview for audit, eDiscovery, communication compliance, compliance management, records management, and data lifecycle management, helping organizations more easily understand how these capabilities work together.
- Yes. Microsoft Purview helps organizations manage compliance requirements for AI by providing auditing, retention, eDiscovery, communication compliance, and compliance assessment capabilities that support the use of AI applications and services.
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