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How data flows in Microsoft Purview

This article describes how Microsoft Purview shares data between Purview solutions. This information supplements the commitments made to you in the relevant sections of the Microsoft Product Terms and the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum. If you don’t agree with the data flow as described in this article, you shouldn’t access or utilize Microsoft Purview.

The following table describes how Microsoft Purview solutions share data to Microsoft Purview Data Map and receive data from Microsoft Purview Data Map and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. The data map provides a unified map of your data assets and can identify the assets’ relationships for effective governance. Defender for Cloud Apps gives you full visibility of your SaaS app landscape to help protect your apps.

Microsoft Purview Solution What gets shared to Data Map What is received from Data Map What is received from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Microsoft Purview Audit N/A - Service configuration data
- Audited activities data (including audit records and log query permissions)
- Admin operations data
N/A
Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog - Asset details, including asset metadata, classification data, and label data - Asset details, including asset metadata, classification data, and label data N/A
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) - DLP policies and configuration - Classification data
- Policy hit audit events and policy distribution acknowledgment status
N/A
Microsoft Purview Information Protection - Label definitions, policies, and configurations
-Label insights and aggregations for Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Information Protection policies and configurations
- Classification data for Microsoft 365
- Asset metadata for Microsoft 365
- Telemetry data for protection policies and labels
- Label insights and aggregations
- Classification data
- Tenant roles, role groups, and license information
- Scan setup and execution details
- Asset metadata (owner and additional information including name, path, consent status)
- Policy hit audit events and policy distribution acknowledgment status
N/A
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management N/A N/A - Cloud app events (activity log) and connection status
Microsoft Purview Policy N/A - Label names, policies and Ids
- Policy definition
N/A