Microsoft Purview data security
Adopt a unified approach with integrated data security solutions that help you discover and protect data across your organization.
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WHY MICROSOFT PURVIEW
Comprehensive protection for business-critical data
Dynamically secure data across platforms, devices, generative AI applications, and AI agents with a unified data security solution that combines data and user context.
- Gain visibility and uncover hidden risks to your data—wherever it lives or travels—using AI-driven, aggregated insights with correlated data and user context.
- Protect data and prevent its unauthorized use across clouds, devices, and generative AI applications with flexible controls that help balance protection and productivity.
- Respond to data security incidents using AI analysis across integrated solutions.
- Discover hidden data risks, identify coverage gaps, take recommended actions, and evaluate how well current policies are protecting your sensitive data.
- Discover sensitive data across your entire data estate and get prioritized policy recommendations to help keep your data secure.
- Identify the location of sensitive assets and potentially risky user activities with analytics reports and trends.
- Gain deeper insights into your data estate and the activities of users interacting with your sensitive data.
- Protect data while supporting productivity with built-in classification, sensitivity labeling, and document protection in Microsoft 365 apps and services.
- Understand and control your sensitive data—no matter where it lives—with a common set of classifiers, exact data match, and other advanced classification capabilities.
- Create, configure, and manage policies with a unified experience that also provides data risk insights across workloads.
- Create, manage, and enforce data loss prevention policies across your environment, including cloud apps, email, devices, Microsoft Fabric, and AI, in the Microsoft Purview portal.
- Detect and protect sensitive data using a common set of labeling capabilities from Information Protection and dynamically adapt protection levels to user risk with Insider Risk Management—all natively built into Data Loss Prevention.
- Configure, triage, and investigate data loss prevention incidents directly from Microsoft Purview. Integrate data loss prevention alerts into broader security operations workflows with Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Sentinel.
- Get started quickly with built-in controls for cloud workloads and Windows devices. Kickstart policy creation with Purview Data Loss Prevention policy templates.
- Conduct an evaluation of potential insider risks in your organization without configuring any insider risk policies.
- Quickly create a policy with customizable templates that require no scripting or endpoint agents to deploy.
- Get step-by-step guidance when you onboard to Insider Risk Management.
- Search your organization’s Microsoft 365 data estate for incident-related documents, emails, Copilot prompts and responses, and Microsoft Teams messages. Or launch a pre-scoped investigation from a case in Insider Risk Management or an incident in Defender XDR.
- Accelerate data security investigations and uncover key security risks by using AI to categorize evidence, perform vector searches, and examine evidence.
- View correlations between impacted data, users, and their activities with data risk graphs that help you understand the full footprint of a data security incident and add confidence and context to investigations.
CAPABILITIES
Secure your data with Microsoft Purview
Understand and secure data, prevent data loss, and mitigate risks with a unified approach that combines data and user context to provide comprehensive protection.
Data security posture management
Discover data vulnerabilities and get actionable insights to help strengthen your security posture.
Information protection
Identify, classify, label, and secure critical, sensitive data across your environment.
Data loss prevention
Help prevent unauthorized use of sensitive data across Microsoft 365, endpoint devices, browsers, networks, Fabric, and Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Insider risk management
Discover how to identify potential risks across a broad range of user activities.
Data security investigations
Accelerate data security investigations with AI-powered deep content analysis that helps uncover and remediate key security and sensitive data risks.
How to secure your data with Microsoft Security
Secure data where it lives or travels. Learn how to secure data in the era of AI with a comprehensive approach that combines data and user context across users, devices, and generative AI applications.
PRODUCT INTEGRATIONS
Built to work across Microsoft solutions
Maximize your existing Microsoft Security investments with Microsoft Purview capabilities that work natively across Microsoft Security and Microsoft 365.
Microsoft Security Copilot
Detect and respond to data security risks faster with AI-driven data insights and natural language guidance in Security Copilot.
Microsoft Defender
Streamline and enrich investigations with data and user risk context. Improve response times by connecting data security and incident management workflows.
Microsoft Entra
Dynamically secure AI tools, apps, and resources across clouds and on-premises—from anywhere.
Microsoft Sentinel
Prioritize and identify at-risk data for protection with better insights into incidents and threats.
Microsoft Edge for Business
Secure business-critical data as employees browse and interact with SaaS and generative AI apps in Edge for Business.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Help minimize risks associated with data oversharing, data leaks, and regulatory compliance by extending Microsoft Purview data security controls to Copilot and agents.
PLANS AND PRICING
Explore the Microsoft Purview Suite
Get Microsoft Purview data security 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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- [1]Work Trends Index, Microsoft Worklabs, May 2025, N=638
- [2]“1 Billion New Logical Applications: More Background,” Gary Chen, Jim Mercer, IDC, April 2024, https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US51953724
- [3]Microsoft Purview Suite offers data security and compliance value closely tied to user-based protections. Pay-as-you-go pricing offers data security and compliance value across data, analytics, and AI apps.
- [4]Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR), 2026 Unified Agentic Defense Platforms (UADPs) Industry Assessment.
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