Microsoft Purview Information Protection is an all-in-one, cloud-enabled solution that allows organizations to discover, classify, label, and protect sensitive data anywhere it might be (cloud services, on-premises, etc.).
Microsoft Purview Information Protection increases data security and compliance by providing persistent protection as information travels between applications, devices, and networks.
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Why This Matters?
Discover and Classify Your Data
Utilizing both built-in and trainable classifiers and sensitive information types, Purview can discover any valuable or sensitive content, such as financial data or personally identifiable data, that is either at rest or in motion.
Apply Protection That Travels with Your Data
The sensitivity labels in purview provide encryption, access control, and visual markings (watermarks). With purview, your protection travels with the content, no matter where it goes or who opens it.
Prevent Accidental Data Loss
With Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities, you can avoid accidentally sharing or unintentionally misusing sensitive information with Purview policies across apps and users.
Unified Console & Insights
The unified admin portal is a management platform with visibility into Microsoft 365 apps, endpoints, on-premises applications, and 3rd-party cloud services where you can manage policies, review activity, and modify controls.
Extensibility by SDK
Developers can integrate Purview protection into third-party apps by using the Microsoft Information Protection SDK, enabling important consistency across labeling and policy enforcement in an organization’s custom or line-of-business applications.
How does it fit with the other Microsoft tools offered?
Microsoft Purview integrates seamlessly across the Microsoft ecosystem, enhancing the tools you already use. At Technology Solutions Worldwide, we are thrilled to support deploying Purview with the tools that you already have:
Microsoft 365 (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive)
Add Purview sensitivity labels and DLP policies to the already unique features of your content ecosystem.
Azure Entra (AD)
Identity-based policies ensure only authenticated and compliant users can access sensitive data.
Microsoft Defender / Security Suite
Direct integration enables connections between detections, alerts, and remediation workflows for data protection. Many organizations also evaluate advanced endpoint protection options, where understanding Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 pricing helps in planning the right security investment.
Data Governance utilizing the Microsoft Purview Ecosystem
The outstanding Purview suite, intent on protective governance, encompasses Data Loss Prevention, Compliance Manager, Data Map, and Lifecycle Management, among others, and centralized governance and protection.
This combination amplifies your overall security posture, as well as achieving a seamless, unified, low-friction experience across your tools and platforms.
Use Cases in the Real World
Protecting Emails & Documents
Automatically apply a sensitivity label to emails, documents, and Teams content based on your policy classification or machine-learning classification, ensuring that encryption and control stay with the data wherever it goes.
Cross-App Protection
Whether you’re protecting a PDF, an Office file, or a line-of-business application, sensitivity labels and protection stay with the data, regardless of if the data has left a Microsoft application.
Hybrid Environments
An information protection scanner can find sensitive files in on-premises repositories and help protect them.
Prevent Sharing in Teams
Labels, DLP, and Teams will prevent sensitive information from being shared inadvertently in chats, meetings, files, or channels.
How to Get Started in 3 Steps?
Identify what is important
Determine the types of sensitive data that your organization deals with and classify them (confidential, public, or restricted).
Create and Publish Sensitivity Labels
Using Purview’s labeling, you can configure the protection behavior with labels, including encryption, watermarking, or access playing, and publish them.
Automate Labels
You can create automatic or recommended labels using pattern-based classifiers or AI classifiers to lessen the manual work involved and meet compliance standards consistently.
Expand using SDK or Scanner
Protect non-Microsoft applications by using the MIP SDK, or protect on-prem files using the Purview scanner for comprehensive coverage.
Conclusion
Microsoft Purview Information Protection, your single source for data classification, labeling, and protection, permits organizations to find sensitive data, apply persistent protection, and avoid data loss across complex environments. It works effortlessly with the suite of tools we provide at Technology Solutions Worldwide, with Microsoft 365 apps, Azure Entra, Defender, and Purview’s governance modules as complementary offerings.
Reach out to Technology Solutions Worldwide, and you’ll find out how Purview can be integrated with your existing infrastructure and greatly improve your protection for your most sensitive information.
