Microsoft Purview, data governance with audit-ready evidence.
- 50+Purview tenants
- AuditReady evidence
- DLPTuned policies
- 24/7Coverage
Six data-governance disciplines, one platform.
Information Protection
Sensitivity-label schema designed for your business, deployed via Office, Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams. Auto-labelling for common patterns, manual labelling supported with policy.
Data Loss Prevention
DLP policies for email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, endpoints. Tuned for false-positives, integrated with Defender for Cloud Apps for SaaS coverage.
Insider Risk Management
Behavioural anomaly detection across user activity. Flagged exfiltration, departing-employee monitoring, data-leak prevention before incidents become breaches.
Records management & retention
Retention labels, retention policies, defensible deletion. Compliant with NYDFS Part 500, SOX, healthcare records retention, and other industry requirements.
eDiscovery & legal hold
Premium eDiscovery for litigation and investigations. Legal-hold workflows, custodian management, search-and-export across the M365 corpus.
Audit & compliance
Unified audit log across M365, configuration history, compliance score against frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST, GDPR). Audit-ready evidence.
Three Purview workstreams that turn governance into evidence.
Risk Management
Behavioural risk detection across user activity, communications, and access patterns. Insider Risk, Communication Compliance, and privileged-access monitoring tuned to your environment.
- Insider Risk Management with ML scoring
- Communication Compliance for policy violations
- Privileged Access Management with JIT workflows
- Departing-employee and risk-user playbooks
- Forensic timeline for investigations
Sensitive Information Protection
Classification, labelling, and protection that travel with the data. Sensitivity labels through Office, browser, and mobile; DLP across email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and endpoints.
- Sensitivity-label schema (auto + manual)
- DLP across email, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, endpoints
- Information Rights Management (IRM)
- Information Barriers / ethical-wall enforcement
- Endpoint DLP with USB and cloud-egress controls
Compliance and eDiscovery
Records management with retention and defensible deletion, premium eDiscovery for litigation, and Compliance Manager scoring against ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, SOX, and 300+ frameworks.
- Retention labels and defensible deletion
- Premium eDiscovery with legal-hold workflows
- Compliance Manager continuous assessment
- Unified audit log across the M365 corpus
- Privacy Management for subject-rights requests
Beyond M365: Azure Purview for the wider data estate.
Data Map
Automated discovery and metadata classification across your hybrid estate. Connects to SQL, Azure Data Lake, Snowflake, S3, on-prem file shares, Power BI, and 50+ source types.
- Automated scanning of structured and unstructured sources
- Classification with 200+ built-in and custom rules
- Lineage capture across ETL, ELT, and Power BI flows
- Hybrid coverage: Azure, AWS S3, on-prem SQL, Snowflake
- Glossary terms aligned to business taxonomy
Data Catalog
Searchable inventory of every dataset across the estate, with lineage, ownership, sensitivity, and certification. Self-service discovery for analysts without granting raw access.
- Searchable inventory across hybrid sources
- Owner, steward, and expert assignment per asset
- Lineage visualisation upstream and downstream
- Sensitivity-label propagation from M365
- Certification workflows for trusted datasets
Data Estate Insights
Posture scoring across the data estate, sensitivity coverage, ownership gaps, classification accuracy. Executive dashboards for the CDO and operational drilldowns for stewards.
- Posture scoring per source, domain, and owner
- Sensitivity-coverage and classification health
- Ownership gap analysis with remediation prompts
- CDO dashboards plus steward operational views
- Trend analysis across quarterly catalogue snapshots
Data Sharing
In-place data sharing across Azure tenants without copying. Share live datasets with partners, regulators, or sister entities, with revocation, audit, and expiry built in.
- In-place sharing across Azure tenants, no copies
- Granular share scope by table or container
- Time-bound shares with auto-expiry
- Audit trail of every consumer query
- Revocation without partner cooperation required
Four reasons clients pick us for the deployment.
50+ Purview tenants
Pattern recognition matters. We have deployed Purview across regulated firms, healthcare, professional services. Common DLP traps, common retention gaps.
Framework-aligned
Sensitivity-label schemas mapped to ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, SOX. Retention policies aligned to industry requirements. Audit-ready by default.
Tuned, not just enabled
DLP false-positives suppressed during baseline. Insider-risk thresholds tuned for your environment. Sensitivity labels classified for actual business use.
US-based engineers
Senior compliance engineers with ISO 27001 LA, CIPP, and CISM credentials. Same team that deploys operates and supports.
Purview deployments by sector.
Financial services
SEC- and NYDFS-regulated firms using Purview for regulator-required retention, audit logging, eDiscovery, and DLP for client-confidential data.
Healthcare
Hospitals, clinics, medical groups using Purview for PHI protection, HIPAA-compliant retention, breach-investigation eDiscovery.
Professional services
Law firms, accountancies, consultancies using Purview for matter-based retention, ethical-wall enforcement, legal-hold workflows.
Tech and SaaS
SaaS companies using Purview for SOC 2 evidence, data-classification programmes, GDPR subject-rights workflows.
Retail and e-commerce
Retail groups using Purview for PCI DSS retention, customer-data DLP, GDPR right-to-be-forgotten workflows.
Education
Schools and universities using Purview for student-record retention (FERPA compliance), parent-data protection, exam-record archival.
Government
Federal and Emirate-level entities using Purview for US data protection Law obligations, NIST CSF T-control evidence, ISO 27001 alignment, classified-data handling.
Why integrated Purview beats third-party DLP.
| Feature | Patchwork tooling Multiple vendors | Microsoft Purview Integrated platform |
|---|---|---|
Vendors to manage | 3-5+ | 1 |
Sensitivity-label enforcement | Limited (often gateway-only) | End-to-end through Office, browser, mobile |
M365 native integration | API-only | Native, no licensing extras |
eDiscovery across Teams/SharePoint | Custom export | Native search |
Audit-log retention | 90-180 days typical | 1+ year built-in, archive available |
Total cost (mid-market) | Higher (licence stacking) | Often included with M365 E5 |
Compliance Manager scoring |
What clients see across the Purview programme.
Across the data estate, M365 plus Azure plus hybrid sources, classified and labelled in client tenants we operate.
Average Compliance Manager score against active frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, GDPR, SOX) post-baseline.
Reduction in data-leak risk events measured by Insider Risk Management 12 months post-deployment.
Faster time-to-find for analysts using the Catalog vs raw access requests through IT helpdesk.
You do not need to deploy everything at once.
Most clients arrive without a sensitivity-label schema, with audit logging disabled, and with retention policies that exist on paper but not in the tenant. We start with a 90-day baseline (labels + DLP + audit + retention), prove value to the regulator, then layer Insider Risk, Communication Compliance, and eDiscovery as readiness allows. The longest journey starts with a single label.
- Free 90-day baseline phase to size the programme
- Sensitivity labels designed against your data taxonomy
- DLP rolled out in audit-only mode before enforcement
- Retention policies aligned to NYDFS Part 500, SOX, HIPAA, FERPA
- Compliance Manager dashboards for the next regulator visit
- Quarterly tuning to keep false-positives below 5%
From compliance audit to managed Purview operations.
- 1
Compliance audit
2-3 weeks
Current-state assessment: data classification, DLP gaps, retention gaps, audit-log coverage, regulator-framework mapping. Output: gap report and deployment plan.
- 2
Schema design
2-3 weeks
Sensitivity-label schema designed for your business, retention policy designed for your records, DLP policies sized for your false-positive tolerance.
- 3
Deployment
3-6 weeks
Labels deployed, DLP rolled out in audit-only then enforce mode, retention activated, insider-risk baseline established, audit logging enabled.
- 4
Operate
Continuous
Quarterly retention reviews, monthly DLP tuning, ongoing eDiscovery support, compliance scoring, audit-evidence kept current.
“Our regulator review asked for evidence of how we handle client-confidential data. We had M365 E5 licences for two years and never deployed Purview. GR IT brought us to ISO 27001-aligned posture in four months: sensitivity labels enforced through Outlook, retention defensibly applied, audit logs preserved. The next regulator visit was answered with documentation, not promises.”
Microsoft Purview, frequently asked.
Resources for compliance leads.
Microsoft Priva
Privacy management platform that extends Purview with subject-rights-request automation, privacy risk assessment, GDPR workflows.
Learn moreMicrosoft Defender
Endpoint EDR and threat protection that complements Purview's data-loss prevention with active threat response.
Learn moreCybersecurity audit
Independent assessment of your data-governance posture. ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOX gap analysis, written remediation programme.
Learn moreTalk to a compliance specialist.
Three-minute form. Our compliance team gets back the same business day to schedule a discovery call. We will tell you which Purview SKUs fit your regulator and risk before you commit to a deployment.
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