Data security and governance

Explore powerful security and governance tools in Microsoft Fabric.

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OVERVIEW

Manage, govern, and secure all your data in Fabric

Flexibly configure tenant-wide policies and delegate management to domains in a federated data mesh.
Ensure your data is protected with industry-leading security tools built directly in Fabric.
Help everyone more easily discover and access the data they need in a central data catalog.
Monitor and analyze activities in your tenant to ensure operations are running smoothly.

Microsoft Purview data security

Define security on items, folders, rows, and columns to share and collaborate without exposing sensitive data.

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Customer stories

Explore why organizations choose Fabric

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“The commitment to security and the maturity of the platform made it clear we could trust it with our most sensitive data.”

Dr. Madhu Sasidhar, President and CEO, Apollo Hospitals

60%

Improved order conversion

25%

Reduction in manual tracking

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“As a nonprofit, the integrity of our brand is everything. To fulfill our mission, people must trust that we can protect their data.”

Keith Goodwin, Chief Information Officer, Make-A-Wish

“Fabric let us build on the familiarity, security, and scalability of Azure. It unites data flows, storage, analytics, and machine learning in a single experience.”

Jerod Ridge, Director of Data Engineering, Lumen

10,000

Manual work hours cut

Fewer hours/day copying data

“Now, with reduced data exposure and enhanced compliance, we’ve significantly mitigated risk. It’s a win-win situation—improved performance, seamless integration of diverse data types, and fortified security.”

James Clark, Principal Machine Learning Science Manager, Microsoft

50%

Efficiency increase for analytics experts

50%

Boost in data output process efficiencies

“Microsoft Fabric offered a one-stop solution for this and all UST data needs, integrating various data sources and systems efficiently, with enhanced security and data governance.”

Sumesh Sukumaran, Data Integration Architect, UST

50%

Reduction in time spent ingesting data