Learn about Microsoft Purview

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Microsoft Purview is a comprehensive set of solutions that can help your organization govern, protect, and manage data, wherever it lives. Microsoft Purview solutions provide integrated coverage and help address the fragmentation of data across organizations, the lack of visibility that hampers data protection and governance, and the blurring of traditional IT management roles.

Microsoft Purview combines the former Azure Purview and Microsoft 365 compliance solutions and services together into a unified platform to help your organization:

  • Gain visibility into data across your organization
  • Safeguard and manage sensitive data across its lifecycle, wherever it lives
  • Govern data seamlessly in new, comprehensive ways
  • Manage critical data risks and regulatory requirements

Solution areas in Microsoft Purview.

Data security, governance, and compliance together

Microsoft Purview provides organizations with a powerful platform for governing and securing data across your entire data estate.

Data security

Microsoft Purview provides a robust and coordinated set of data security solutions to help you discover and protect sensitive information. The solutions include:

Data governance

Microsoft Purview includes unified data governance solutions that help you manage data services across your on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) estate. That includes Azure storage services, Power BI, databases like SQL or Hive, file services like Amazon S3, and many more. The solutions include:

Together, these tools empower your organization to:

  • Create an up-to-date map of your entire data estate that includes data classification and end-to-end lineage
  • Identify where sensitive data is stored in your estate
  • Create a secure environment for data consumers to find valuable data
  • Generate insights about how your data is stored and used
  • Manage access to the data in your estate securely and at scale

Risk and compliance

Microsoft Purview includes risk and compliance solutions to help your organization minimize compliance risks and meet regulatory requirements. The solutions include:

Are you interested in privacy solutions?

Microsoft Priva solutions support privacy operations across your organization's data landscape. All Priva solutions can be accessed in the Microsoft Priva portal (preview).

The new Microsoft Purview portal (preview)

The new Microsoft Purview portal (preview) is designed to make securing and governing your data easy and efficient. The new portal has a refreshed design that provides a consistent look and feel, a streamlined information architecture, and simplified navigation into Microsoft Purview solutions.

What's in the new portal? The Microsoft Purview portal (preview) provides access to data governance, data security, and risk and compliance solutions. Selecting risk and compliance solutions in the portal currently opens these solutions in the classic Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Start exploring: Get details about accessing and navigating the new portal by visiting Learn about the new Microsoft Purview portal (preview).

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