Microsoft Purview automatically discovers and classifies sensitive data across your entire organization, then enforces protection policies that follow the data wherever it goes. We deploy and manage it so compliance is a posture, not a project.
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Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance and compliance platform that gives organizations complete visibility into where their sensitive data lives, how it's being used, and who has access to it. It consolidates data discovery, classification, labeling, loss prevention, records management, eDiscovery, and compliance scoring into a single portal. For organizations subject to GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, CMMC, or PCI-DSS, Purview provides both the controls and the evidence to demonstrate compliance without building a separate audit apparatus.
Trainable classifiers and sensitive information types automatically identify credit card numbers, SSNs, health record fields, financial data, and custom organizational data patterns across all your Microsoft 365 content — email, files, chats, and sites.
Persistent labels — Public, Internal, Confidential, Highly Confidential — travel with documents and emails through encryption, access restrictions, and visual markings. Once labeled, a document stays protected even when downloaded to an unmanaged device or shared externally.
DLP policies scan email, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, endpoints, and on-premises file shares for sensitive data in motion. Policies can warn, block, or require justification when users attempt to share content that violates your data handling rules.
Segment communication between departments or individuals to prevent conflicts of interest or regulatory violations. Required by financial services regulations, Information Barriers enforce who can communicate with whom across Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
Define retention and deletion policies aligned to your regulatory requirements. Content is automatically retained for required periods, flagged for disposition review, and deleted on schedule — creating a defensible, auditable records management program without manual intervention.
Legal hold, content search, and export capabilities across all Microsoft 365 content. Purview eDiscovery (Premium) adds custodian management, advanced analytics, and communication compliance to support litigation and regulatory investigations.
Effective data governance is not a single tool — it's a lifecycle. Purview provides controls at every stage, so sensitive data is protected from the moment it's created until it's defensibly deleted.
The Purview Data Catalog scans your Microsoft 365 environment and connected data sources to build a complete inventory of where sensitive data exists. You cannot protect what you cannot find.
Trainable classifiers and 300+ built-in sensitive information types automatically tag content as it's created or uploaded. Manual labeling in Office apps gives users the ability to apply sensitivity designations with one click.
Sensitivity labels trigger automatic encryption, access controls, and visual markings. DLP policies enforce data handling rules wherever data travels — email, Teams, SharePoint, endpoints, or cloud uploads.
Activity Explorer and Content Explorer provide continuous visibility into how classified data is being used, who is accessing it, what policy matches are occurring, and where potential data leakage risks exist.
Retention policies automatically preserve content required by regulation and delete content past its retention period. Legal holds prevent deletion of content relevant to litigation or investigations.
Disposition reviews ensure records are deleted only after explicit human approval. Every deletion is logged, creating the audit trail required to demonstrate defensible disposal to regulators.
Compliance Manager provides pre-built assessment templates and tracks your implementation progress against each framework, giving you a live compliance score and action plan.
Subject rights request management, data residency controls, consent tracking, and breach notification workflows. Purview's GDPR template maps 130+ controls to Microsoft's built-in capabilities.
PHI classification and DLP policies, access controls for ePHI, audit logging for healthcare data access, and Business Associate Agreement support. Purview HIPAA controls align with the Security and Privacy Rules.
Financial data classification, segregation-of-duties enforcement through Information Barriers, audit-ready reporting for financial system access, and immutable records retention for financial documents.
Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) identification and protection, access control documentation, and audit logging required by CMMC Level 2 and Level 3 for DoD contractors handling sensitive defense information.
Cardholder data discovery and classification, DLP policies that prevent cardholder data from leaving defined zones, access logging for payment systems, and retention controls aligned to PCI-DSS requirement 10 and 12.
Compliance Manager templates for ISO 27001:2022 and NIST 800-53 map your Microsoft 365 configuration to framework requirements, tracking your implementation percentage and flagging gaps requiring remediation.
Data governance implementations fail when they're too disruptive too fast. Our approach starts with high-impact, low-disruption controls and layers in more restrictive policies after users are prepared and trust in the system is established.
We run the Purview Content and Activity Explorer against your tenant to generate a complete picture of sensitive data exposure: where PHI, PII, and financial data lives, who has access, and what's already leaving your environment.
We design a sensitivity label hierarchy that maps to your data types and business processes — not a generic template. Labels must be intuitive for users or they won't be applied. We run stakeholder workshops to ensure buy-in before deployment.
DLP starts in Audit mode — we observe for two weeks without blocking anything. After reviewing the policy match data, we enable warning-mode policies, then blocking policies with override options, then strict blocking where required by regulation.
We configure Compliance Manager assessments for your specific regulatory frameworks, establish retention policies aligned to your legal obligations, and set up communication compliance monitoring where required.
We deliver targeted training for users in high-risk roles — HR, finance, legal, executive assistants — on sensitivity labels and DLP policy expectations. Training reduces policy override rates and false-positive reports significantly.
We monitor DLP policy matches, tune rules to reduce false positives, manage disposition reviews for records approaching their retention expiry, and provide monthly compliance posture reports for your legal and compliance teams.
Microsoft Purview is a unified data governance and compliance platform that helps organizations discover, classify, protect, and govern their data across on-premises, multicloud, and SaaS environments. It consolidates what were previously separate tools — Azure Purview, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance Manager, and eDiscovery — into a single platform accessible from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is now a component within the broader Microsoft Purview platform. MIP specifically handles sensitivity labels, encryption, and access controls for documents and emails. Purview extends that to include data catalog and discovery, Data Loss Prevention policies, Compliance Manager, Records Management, eDiscovery, and Information Barriers. If you were using MIP, you are already inside the Purview ecosystem.
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager includes pre-built assessment templates for over 350 regulatory standards including GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, CMMC, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and FedRAMP. Each template provides a compliance score, specific action items, and documentation of Microsoft's shared responsibility controls, which accelerates audit preparation significantly.
Basic email filtering blocks known malicious content. Purview DLP identifies and protects sensitive data — Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, health record fields, proprietary financial data — regardless of whether the email is malicious. DLP policies can warn users, block transmission, require justification for overrides, and log every policy match for audit purposes. Coverage extends beyond email to Teams chat, SharePoint, OneDrive, endpoints, and on-premises file shares.
A foundational Purview deployment — sensitivity label taxonomy, initial DLP policies, and Compliance Manager baseline — typically takes 3-5 weeks. A comprehensive deployment including eDiscovery configuration, Records Management policy setup, and Information Barriers can take 6-10 weeks depending on organizational complexity. BluetechGreen starts with high-impact, low-disruption controls and layers in more restrictive policies after user communication and training.
We'll scan your Microsoft 365 environment to show you exactly where your sensitive data is exposed, then build a Purview deployment plan aligned to your compliance requirements.