Microsoft Purview is a unified platform of data security, governance, and compliance solutions designed to help you manage and protect data wherever it lives—on-premises, in the cloud, and across AI applications.

In the era of AI, organizations face several challenges:

• Data is fragmented across many systems and services.
• Lack of visibility makes it harder to protect and govern sensitive information.
• AI adoption is accelerating, increasing the risk of data misuse or leakage.
• Traditional IT roles and responsibilities are blurring.

Microsoft Purview helps you address these challenges by enabling you to:

• Gain visibility into data across your organization.
• Safeguard and manage sensitive data across its full lifecycle.
• Govern data in more seamless and comprehensive ways.
• Manage regulatory and compliance requirements consistently.
• Protect against accidental oversharing and sensitive data leakage in generative AI scenarios.

By bringing these capabilities together in one platform, Purview helps you rethink how you secure and govern data as you adopt AI, reducing complexity and improving your ability to mitigate risk.

Microsoft Purview provides a coordinated set of data security solutions that help you secure data dynamically throughout its lifecycle, including when that data is accessed by AI tools.

Purview protections apply across:

• Copilot experiences and agents
• Enterprise AI apps that your organization builds
• Other AI apps you use from third parties

Key data security capabilities include:

• Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) – Helps prevent sensitive data from being shared inappropriately.
• Data Security Investigations – Supports investigation of suspicious data activities and incidents.
• Information Barriers – Helps restrict communication and data sharing between specific groups.
• Information Protection – Uses labels and policies to classify and protect sensitive information.
• Insider Risk Management – Helps identify and manage risky user behavior involving data.
• Privileged Access Management – Controls and monitors high-privilege access to sensitive resources.

In addition, Microsoft Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (currently in preview) helps you:

• Discover where sensitive data resides across your digital estate.
• Protect that data with appropriate controls.
• Investigate and remediate sensitive data risks across both traditional applications and AI apps and agents.

Together, these capabilities help you reimagine your AI data security strategy so you can adopt AI with more confidence while managing the risk of oversharing and data leakage.

Microsoft Purview goes beyond security to offer unified data governance and compliance capabilities that help you manage your full data estate and meet regulatory requirements.

Data governance capabilities help you organize, understand, and manage data services across your environment, and support a more federated approach to governance. Key solutions include:

• Microsoft Purview Data Map – Helps you map and understand where data lives and how it flows.
• Microsoft Purview Unified Catalog – Provides a central catalog to discover and manage data assets.

Data compliance capabilities help you minimize compliance risks and address regulatory requirements:

• Microsoft Purview Audit – Captures and surfaces audit logs for investigations and compliance reporting.
• Communication Compliance – Helps monitor and manage communications for policy and regulatory adherence.
• Compliance Manager – Supports assessment and management of compliance posture.
• Data Lifecycle Management – Manages retention and deletion policies across data.
• eDiscovery – Helps you identify, preserve, and review content for legal and regulatory matters.
• Records Management – Supports formal records classification and retention.

Many capabilities are shared across these solutions, such as:

• Classifiers for identifying types of data.
• Connectors to bring in data from multiple sources.
• Data explorer and activity explorer for visibility into data and user actions.
• Sensitivity labels to classify and protect information consistently.

All of this is accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, which offers a consistent, streamlined experience for navigating data governance, security, and compliance tools. This helps your organization reshape how you manage data risk and compliance across both traditional and AI-driven workloads.