Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention vs. SmartLockr

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is well suited to provide a consistent user experience. So all the different products blend together quite well for an office environment. So Teams connects well with Office Outlook. It connects well with SharePoint. So we have a unique connectivity experience in terms of the digital experience of a typical user. And now, with Copilot, it's a great mix and blend that empowers users to adopt AI in their day-to-day office work. And I think that's great.

Incentivized

• Extensive library for data content classifiers.
• Strong integration with Microsoft products allowing effective controls to be applied (e.g. Exchange/M365 for email, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to control web, SharePoint/OneDrive to apply policies on sharing.)
• Insider Risk module provides visibility into suspicious activities which may not be detected by regular DLP rules.

Incentivized

• Overall, Microsoft DLP is not my number one choice because there's not much flexibility. There's a lot of restrictions and the way they set up rules a lot really restrictive. Thus it takes a lot more time for my team to build the rules and establish the controls as needed. So it's very clunky in that way and they have not improved it over the years, but I know they're trying to get a better, however it takes time because Microsoft, as we all knows, not a really security centric company.

Incentivized

Just because it's so easy to navigate and, for the most part, even areas that I don't know about, the support channels are very clear and concise, and they respond very quickly to whatever I need. They'll guide me through whatever I don't understand, and sometimes there are a lot of things added in there.

Incentivized

We are a complete Microsoft shop. Competitors, we have come across Symantec DLP, that's one. We've come across Nexscope DLP. I've personally migrated customers from Nextscope DLP to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. There is McAfee DLP as well, which we have worked with. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, definitely, because we don't require another agent to be deployed on Windows machines. It's part of the OS, easy deployment, easy onboarding. So also within email, SharePoint, OneDrive, customers don't have to build any other connectors. It's already integrated. All you have to do is start creating policies, start monitoring them. So the ease of deployment and integration across the Microsoft stack is what we like.

Incentivized

• From an ROI perspective, being able to have a robust DLP capability within 365 and with eShare, again, providing the defensive depth and keeping data 365 gives both us as well as our customers an ROI by being able to not use third party repositories to share data externally and by keeping data inside of 365. It gives me much more visibility into my data landscape. One of the things we advise our customers to do when they're starting to explore the advanced capabilities of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, for example, is to use that DLP product to monitor and understand the flows of sensitive data within the organization. By being able to look at that DLP, identify those sensitive niche types, and see which transactions occur internally within the organization, I get a clearer picture of what I'm doing.

Incentivized