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Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview is a comprehensive portfolio of products spanning data governance, information protection, risk management, and compliance solutions.
Microsoft Purview solutions
Guidance to help you get started with Microsoft Purview solutions in the governance and compliance portals.

Learn how Microsoft Purview data governance, risk, and compliance solutions can help your organization govern, protect, and manage your data estate.

Learn how to use Microsoft Purview so your organization can find, understand, govern, and consume data sources.

If your organization needs to comply with legal or regulatory standards, start here to learn about compliance in Microsoft Purview.
Manage visibility and governance of data assets
Guidance to help you get started with understanding and governing data across your digital estate.
Find trusted data sources by browsing and searching your data assets, aligning your assets with friendly business terms and data classification.
Gain insights into your data estate, to help you discover what kinds of data you have and where.
Manage access to the data in your estate securely and at scale.
Share data both within your organization or cross organizations with business partners and customers.
Protect sensitive data across clouds, apps, and devices
Guidance to help you get started with protecting data in your organization.
Discover, classify, and protect sensitive information wherever it lives or travels.
Use data loss prevention to help prevent accidental sharing of sensitive information.
Send and receive encrypted email messages to people inside and outside your organization.
Help meet compliance requirements by exercising control over your organization's encryption keys.
Uses two keys together to access protected content. Microsoft stores one key in Microsoft Azure, and you hold the other key.
Import and archive non-Microsoft data so you can apply Microsoft 365 protection and governance capabilities to third-party data.
Retain the Microsoft 365 data that you need to keep, and delete the content that no longer has business value.
Extend sensitivity labels to third-party apps and services.
Maintain control over your content with explicit access authorization for service operations.
Identify data risks and manage regulatory compliance requirements
Guidance to help you get started with identifying and minimizing risk in your organization.
Detect, investigate, and act on malicious and inadvertent risk activities in your organization.
Detect, investigate, and act on inappropriate and sensitive messages in your organization.
Restrict communication and collaboration among specific groups of users in highly-regulated organizations.
Help protect your organization from breaches that use accounts with standing access to sensitive data and critical configuration settings.
Compliance Manager helps with taking inventory of data protection risks, managing the implementation of controls, staying current with regulations & certifications, and reporting to auditors.
Manage high-value items for business, legal, or regulatory record-keeping requirements.
Learn about premium and standard audit solutions and tools to help you log and search for audited activities in SharePoint and OneDrive.
Learn about eDiscovery tools that allow you to search for content in Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, and Viva Engage teams.
Adapt, extend, integrate, accelerate, and support compliance solutions with programmatic access.