Microsoft Purview is a unified platform of solutions that helps your organization govern, protect, and manage data wherever it lives. It’s designed for the era of AI, where data is spread across many systems and traditional IT roles are changing.

Purview helps you:

• Gain visibility into data across your entire organization, reducing blind spots.
• Safeguard and manage sensitive data across its full lifecycle, no matter where it’s stored or used.
• Govern data in more seamless and comprehensive ways, supporting a federated approach to data management.
• Manage critical data risks and regulatory requirements with integrated compliance tools.
• Protect against accidental oversharing and data leakage in generative AI scenarios.

By bringing data security, governance, and compliance into one platform, Microsoft Purview helps organizations reduce complexity and improve risk mitigation as they reimagine how they use AI.

Microsoft Purview provides a coordinated set of data security solutions that help you dynamically protect data from creation through to archival or deletion, including when that data is used by AI.

Purview protections apply across:

• Copilot experiences and agents
• Enterprise AI apps that your organization builds
• Other AI apps you adopt

Key data security capabilities include:

• Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – helps prevent inappropriate sharing or exfiltration of sensitive data.
• Data Security Investigations – supports investigation of suspicious data activities.
• Information Barriers – helps control which groups can communicate and share data.
• Information Protection – uses labels and policies to classify and protect sensitive information.
• Insider Risk Management – helps identify and manage risky user behavior.
• Privileged Access Management – limits and controls high-privilege access to sensitive resources.

In addition, the new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) capability (in preview) helps you:

• Discover sensitive data across your digital estate.
• Protect that data with appropriate controls.
• Investigate and remediate data risks across both traditional applications and AI apps and agents.

This gives you central visibility and control so you can adopt AI with more confidence while managing data security risks.

Microsoft Purview goes beyond security to provide unified data governance and compliance across your data estate.

Data governance capabilities help you manage and understand your data assets so you can unlock business value while maintaining control. Key solutions include:

• Microsoft Purview Data Map – helps you map and understand where data resides across your environment.
• Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog – provides a central catalog of data assets to support discovery and responsible use.

Data compliance capabilities help you minimize compliance risks and meet regulatory requirements:

• Microsoft Purview Audit – supports auditing and investigation of user and admin activities.
• Communication Compliance – helps you monitor and manage communications for policy and regulatory needs.
• Compliance Manager – assists with assessing and managing compliance posture.
• Data Lifecycle Management – manages retention and deletion policies for data.
• eDiscovery – supports legal discovery and investigations.
• Records Management – helps classify and manage records for regulatory and business requirements.

Many capabilities are shared across Purview solutions, such as:

• Classifiers for identifying data types
• Connectors for integrating data sources
• Data explorer and activity explorer for visibility into data and usage
• Sensitivity labels for consistent classification and protection

All of this is accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, which offers a consistent, streamlined experience to navigate data governance, security, and compliance capabilities and to plan your AI data security strategy.