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Microsoft Purview Platform: Data Security and Governance
Microsoft Purview is a unified suite of data security, governance, and compliance solutions that helps organizations safeguard their data wherever it lives. As part of Microsoft Security, it empowers you to discover, classify, and protect sensitive information while ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing risk. Built on Zero Trust principles, Purview enables teams to manage and govern data across hybrid and multicloud environments—helping businesses stay secure, compliant, and ready for the era of AI.
Unifying Data Security, Governance, and Compliance in One Platform
In today’s data-driven world, visibility and control are essential. Microsoft Purview delivers a comprehensive approach to data security, data governance, and data compliance, helping organizations protect and unlock value from their most important asset—data.
Purview unifies tools across your entire data estate—on-premises, multicloud, and SaaS—providing end-to-end visibility and simplified management through a single interface. It empowers security, IT, and compliance teams to collaborate seamlessly, automate risk mitigation, and meet evolving regulatory standards.
Whether your goal is to safeguard sensitive data, manage risk, or ensure compliance readiness, Microsoft Purview provides the foundation to govern, secure, and activate data with confidence.
Key Features & Capabilities
Microsoft Purview unifies data security, data governance, and data compliance in one intelligent platform built for the AI era. It gives organizations the visibility, control, and confidence to protect sensitive data, ensure integrity, and maintain compliance across hybrid and multicloud environments.
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Data Security – Discover, classify, and protect information wherever it lives. With tools like Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and Insider Risk Management, organizations can prevent leaks, detect insider threats, and encrypt critical assets. Advanced capabilities such as Double Key Encryption and Privileged Access Management strengthen control, while Data Security Investigations (preview) harnesses AI to accelerate breach analysis.
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Data Governance – Simplify oversight through Data Map and Unified Catalog, providing a clear view of your entire data estate. Automate metadata scanning, track data lineage, and enable responsible innovation with role-based access and AI-driven insights.
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Data Compliance – Automate risk management and meet regulatory obligations with solutions such as Compliance Manager, Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, and eDiscovery. Continuous auditing and communication compliance tools support transparency and regulatory readiness.
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Business Benefits
Microsoft Purview delivers measurable business impact by unifying data security, governance, and compliance. The Total Economic Impact study reports a 355% ROI, $2.3M NPV, and a payback period of under six months. Organizations reduce data-breach likelihood by 30%, saving more than $225K annually through avoided incidents. Security investigation time decreases by 75%, while compliance workloads drop by 60%, easing operational pressure on overstretched teams.
End users benefit from automated classification, simplified data discovery, and consistent access controls, cutting time spent searching for information by 75% and generating $1.1M in productivity gains over three years. By retiring fragmented legacy tools, companies also save more than $493K in licensing, infrastructure, and management costs, strengthening scalability and long-term resilience.
Microsoft Purview Use Cases Across Industries
Across industries, Microsoft Purview helps organizations secure data, ensure compliance, and enable responsible AI adoption.
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Professional Services: EY embedded Microsoft Purview SDK into GenAI applications, reducing secure feature build time by 25–30% and accelerating AI innovation with built-in compliance and data protection.
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Manufacturing: Cummins automated classification and retention with Purview Information Protection and Data Lifecycle Management, preparing secure, trusted data for generative AI adoption.
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Consumer Goods: Grupo Bimbo leveraged the Microsoft Purview suite to achieve global compliance, reduce data loss, and protect sensitive R&D information across 145,000 employees and 100+ brands.
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Public Sector: Kern County unified fragmented systems with Microsoft Purview, classifying 13M+ files, implementing DLP alerts, and achieving stronger governance, reduced risk, and improved audit readiness.
Integrations & Compatibility
Microsoft Purview integrates seamlessly across your entire data ecosystem—on-premises, multicloud, and SaaS environments. It connects with Microsoft solutions like Azure, Microsoft 365, Power BI, and Dynamics 365, while supporting external platforms such as Amazon S3, Hive, and SQL databases.
Through open APIs, connectors, and deep interoperability, Purview scans, classifies, and governs data across structured and unstructured sources. This unified connectivity enables consistent security and compliance policies, centralized oversight, and streamlined collaboration—empowering organizations to protect and govern data wherever it lives.
brs + Microsoft Purview = Data Security and Governance
brs helps organizations implement Zero Trust security with Microsoft Purview. By combining data classification, protection, DLP, and lifecycle management, we enable secure, least-privilege access across platforms.
We design Zero Trust frameworks that verify every access, protect every dataset, and ensure compliance across platforms.
Our approach ensures every user and device is verified—minimizing risk and strengthening compliance through intelligent, data-driven protection.
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With Microsoft Purview and brs, organizations across Canada and North America securely govern data across multicloud and AI environments.
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