Learn about Microsoft Purview

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 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

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:

• Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
• Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations (preview)
• Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (preview)
• Microsoft Purview Information Barriers
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection
• Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
• Microsoft Purview Privileged Access Management

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:

• Microsoft Purview Data Map: register and scan your data sources to map your data estate and identify sensitive data.
• Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog: curate your data sources, manage your data's integrity, govern your data estate, secure your sensitive data, and drive business value from your existing data sources.

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

You can get started either using our quickstart, or follow our step-by-step sample setup.

Risk and compliance

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

• Microsoft Purview Audit
• Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager
• Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management
• Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

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.

The Microsoft Purview portal

The Microsoft Purview portal 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 provides access to data governance, data security, and risk and compliance solutions.
• Start exploring: Get details about accessing and navigating the new portal by visiting Learn about the new Microsoft Purview portal.

Ready to get started?

• Start exploring the capabilities in the new Microsoft Purview portal
• Get started with Microsoft Purview data security solutions
• Get started with Microsoft Purview risk and compliance solutions
• Get started with Microsoft Purview data governance solutions