Go beyond governance with Microsoft Purview

Governance, protection, and compliance solutions for your organization’s data.

Microsoft Purview secures your most important asset: your data

You can’t innovate without knowing where your data is. Get visibility, manage data securely, and go beyond compliance with Microsoft Purview. Safeguard all your data across platforms, apps, and clouds with comprehensive solutions for information protection, data governance, risk management, and compliance.

Understand and govern data

It’s never been harder to understand and govern an organization’s sensitive information. Get visibility into all your data and manage assets across your environment.

Safeguard data, wherever it lives

Protect sensitive data across apps, clouds, and devices—even if it’s not stored on Microsoft platforms.

Improve risk and compliance posture

Identify data risks and manage regulatory requirements so your organization can stay in compliance.

Be more efficient

Save up to 60 percent using comprehensive Microsoft Security rather than multiple point solutions.1

Discover the Microsoft Purview product family

Help keep your organization’s data safe with a range of solutions for unified data governance, information protection, risk management, and compliance.

  • Audit

    Support forensic investigations and meet regulatory requirements with critical audit log events, and customized retention policies.

  • Communication Compliance

    Foster a safe and compliant workplace by detecting sensitive or inappropriate content shared across your organization’s communication channels.

  • Compliance Manager

    Reduce risk by translating complex regulatory requirements into specific improvement actions that help you raise your score and track progress.

  • Data Lifecycle Management

    Classify and govern data at scale to meet your legal, business, privacy, and regulatory content obligations.

  • Data Loss Prevention

    Automatically protect sensitive information from risky and unauthorized access across apps, services, endpoints, and on-premises files.

  • Data Map and Data Catalog

    Maximize the business value of data for your consumers by creating a unified map to automate and manage metadata from hybrid sources. Make data easily discoverable and understand the origin of your data with interactive data lineage visualization.

  • eDiscovery

    Discover and manage your data in-place with end-to-end workflows for internal or legal investigations.

  • Information Protection

    Discover, identify, classify, and protect sensitive data that is business critical, then manage and protect it across your environment.

  • Insider Risk Management

    Detect, investigate, and take action on critical risks in your organization, including data theft, data leaks, and security policy violations.

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Gartner® names Microsoft a Leader in the 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Information Archiving

Gartner has named Microsoft as a Leader in its 2022 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Information Archiving in recognition of our ability to execute and completeness of vision.2

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Adaptive Protection leverages the breadth of detections from Insider Risk Management and the depth of protection in Data Loss Prevention to help you efficiently optimize data protection controls.

2. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving, by Michael Hoeck, Jeff Vogel, Chandra Mukhyala. 24 January 2022.