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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

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What is Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate…

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What is Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing,…

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Product Details

What is Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Features

Data Loss Prevention Features

  • Supported: Classification Scanning
  • Supported: Email Scanning & Filtering:
  • Supported: Policy Based Protection
  • Supported: Data Breach Reporting
  • Supported: Device Monitoring
  • Supported: Data Patterning
  • Supported: Incident Response
  • Supported: Data Access Control

Data Preparation Features

  • Supported: Data Encryption

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Screenshots

Screenshot of pre-built policy templates to easily get startedScreenshot of DLP analytics to help recommend new policies and fine tune existing onesScreenshot of the step that enables one policy to be applied to several locationsScreenshot of then next step, that enables policies to be scoped to specific users and user groupsScreenshot of composite conditions using groups of AND /OR and exceptions with NOTScreenshot of granular restrictions for different actionsScreenshot of configuring different restrictions for different groups of devicesScreenshot of custom user notifications and policy tipsScreenshot of policy creation in Simulation mode to gain confidence before deploying in productionScreenshot of a migration of existing DLP policies to Microsoft Purview DLP, which occurs automaticallyScreenshot of a display DLP incidents within the context of Security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDRScreenshot of viewable sensitive information and surrounding context relevant to an incidentScreenshot of manual remediation actions that can be run from the event page

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Technical Details

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to provide intelligent detection and control of sensitive information across Office 365, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and on the endpoint. It also helps prevent data loss through identifying and preventing risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use of sensitive data on endpoints, apps, and services.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention, McAfee DLP Endpoint, and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention are common alternatives for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

Reviewers rate Data Encryption highest, with a score of 8.7.

The most common users of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Data loss is the most important and major worry for every organization. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is the most reliable solution in order to protect your data.We have created policies for our sensitive information and this policy ensures that data is not sent to a wrong person in the form of email or document. When such activity is detected it sends an alert to the admin so that the admin can take necessary actions before the damage is caused.We have also created a policy for Teams. It detects whenever any sensitive or confidential information is shared in Teams in the form of attachments or messages.
  • It is very efficient and reliable in protecting the sensitive data or information os the company.
  • It is very easy to setup the policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention because the user interface it so easy and it also provides an option to test the policy before you finally push it to the production environment.
  • It efficiently performs content inspections and scanning of data from removable devices and applications
  • False positives are generated sometimes but that is very very rare.
  • Cost of the product can be revised. However it gives good value for what level of protection it is providing.
  • Only the initial setup was a bit complicated. Otherwise it is solving our problems.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is well suited for every organization where data is their most important asset. There could a lot of data types like, HR data, Payroll data, Non-disclosure agreements, Contracts, Invoices, Financial data, User data, Client data, etc. And these data needs to be protected from being leaked or hacked or shared inappropriately to a wrong person. All these data comes under exteremely sesitive and confidential oriented data. You can create and configure policies to your Exchange, SharePoint and Teams so that none of the data is sent to a wrong person and the policy will filter out and send a notification the admin to block such wrong activities. This will also help and is most necesarry during ISO audits.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
While working in a corporate environment, we face a lot of sensitive client information and data like important records, financial data, security numbers, etc. With the help of Microsoft Purview gives security and data prevention by applying the DLP policies. With the help of the DLP, we automatically prevent information and build security by applying it on various platforms like - excel, word, Microsoft 365, windows, etc.
  • Detects sensitive information by deep content analysis.
  • DLP uses Machine Learning algorithms to detect content matching with policies.
  • Automatic data prevention by applying policies.
  • Additional cost on usage beyond free tier.
  • Limited number of Azure services and tools integrations.
  • Doesn't support all types of data sources.
  • Reduced performance on scanning large data sources.
It provides a centralized view of the service facilities and view of data assets, making it more convenient for usage. Within the Organization, it improves data governance and security compliance by centralizing sensitive data, making it easier to manage. The free tier is available, but for a license, Its cost is determined by various factors like sources scanned, indexed data, and number of API requests.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention in a several different ways across multiple departments. Firstly, we are involved in contact center operations for DoD recruiting, lead nurturing, social outreach etc. As such, contact agents and management often have sensitive PII that has to be handled within defined DoD parameters. Pureview allows us to integrate policies that can scan comms, OneDrive, etc etc. for potentially mishandled PII and allow us to act on it before it becomes an issue (eg. shared outsie the company via email, shared files etc.). Because we work with government contracts and entities, we are often held to very specific security policies and have to demonstrate compliance (CIS levels and FedRamp etc.). PureView DLP lets us export reporting to show our scan activity and compliance conformity. Additionally, we use Preview DLP policies to monitor agency level SharePoints, emails, etc to monitor and coach for potentially sensitive information leaks which can contribute to phishing attacks and the like (eg. employees emailing SSN or other PII for personal use.
  • Excellent pre-defined policies across a variety of content and regions
  • Variable scope of policy enforcement, delineation by groups and departments
  • Excellent reporting and dashboard interfaces.
  • Various alerting and intervention settings depending on which data we are restricting.
  • Advanced or specific policies have a high learning curve.
  • We have to rely on our reseller partner to implement some of the policies that we were looking for.
  • Microsoft is constantly trying to upsell the PureView suite and hides some features included in E5 Enterprise to try and upsell.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is ideal for a 365 E5 enterprise organization where Azure directory is your 'source of truth' for user management and security policies. It is suited for using OneDrive as personal file management and SharePoint as collaborative files storage. Allows delineation of scanning various assets based on job function and department (as defined by Azure groups etc.). No additional cost if you are already invested in an E5 enterprise environment (for most functions, MS has additional DLP product enhancements)
Yash Mudaliar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, communication compliance, data lifecycle management and much more. DLP being an advanced and important offering is used to prevent sensitive org. data being leaked or stolen during the transit (inter or intra-org) or even while at rest. The scope of our use case is both internal as well as managing it for our clients right from on-boarding to administration and implementing.
  • Adaptive Protection is one of the coolest capabilities in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention especially from the aspect of DLP. Over time, it starts analyzing risky documents and/or contents in the M365 (or O365) environment and starts securing them automatically based on the current available settings.
  • The wide variety of options while creating policies helps in covering number of different scenarios and thus offers more secure and broader coverage of content.
  • Activity explorer (specifically Analytics) provides a very helpful and informative bird's eye view of all the activities happening around while ensuring a provision of being notified in real time about any suspicious activity.
  • In case of bulk file operations, DLP has been found to be a bit laggy for few of our clients. These were mostly inter-organizational data transfer/access.
  • I'd like to see and experience a much tighter integration between purview DLP and endpoint DLP in MDE. Ideally, they should coexist at the same place (although the current positioning is also not entirely wrong).
  • I'd like to get a more action oriented version of DLP, even though the abbreviation does mention prevention. If the label goes along the document, I should be able to control even after being sent away.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention should be your choice if you are a part of the O365/M365 ecosystem. Nothing better will suit your need of protecting sensitive data here. If you do not have tech-savvy core team, Purview DLP can almost give you an auto-pilot experience after the initial setup. Much less administration required. While Purview DLP supports some connections, if you are already employing a 3rd party email/endpoint protection software, look for a sibling product there, Purview DLP standalone doesn't works very well.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to help identify electronic patient health information that is transmitted across our systems or stored online and make sure that it is protected wherever we find for regulatory compliance. The information protection aspects of it are good at identifying this sensitive data amidst mountains of regular data, and the legal discovery side helps with making sure we're compliant anytime we need to put a hold on information for legal purposes.
  • It's a great product from an information protection perspective, as it can identify different types of data across tons of different locations.
  • It's great at applying standard regulatory frameworks, like HIPAA, to management actions so you can work towards being as compliant as possible.
  • The eDiscovery tools are very helpful when it comes to managing legal holds and discovery requests, as it's simple to freeze accounts or hold at points in time for discovery.
  • The Data Loss Prevention tools don't seem to integrate well with other DLP tools Microsoft provides, like those built into Exchange Online. Data is missed when it should be blocked from being sent.
  • The way Purview contributes to the overall Microsoft Security Score can be a bit difficult to tell, it's not clear what is being applied to improve the score and other management windows need to be accessed to address suggestions.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is very good for identifying sensitive data across multiple settings, like OneDrive, Exchange Online, Sharepoint, etc. If you want to find data across your whole tenant, this is a decent tool to use for it.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In today's digital world data is the most important asset, and everyone wants to protect their data either from getting lost or getting in the wrong hands. With the move towards working from anywhere since the pandemic data control and management is tougher than before. At this time products like Microsoft Purview comes to rescue. With its simple yet effective implementation and policy creation we can protect our digital data estate from leaving the corporate boundaries. And if you are using Microsoft's office products this the best DLP tool available in the market.
  • Integration with Microsoft Office Apps
  • Discovery of data over your cloud estate
  • Auto Classification of data with help of built in classifiers.
  • Ability to build custom policies and classifiers.
  • we could have more actions available in the DLP policies.
It is the number 1 solution if you use Microsoft office products as it has the best coverage for them and understands the data and usage best for Office products.

You might see for any third-party options for other office application suite if you find this expensive.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
we use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as a tool to monitor emails that are cruicial to our organization. we have used to as a compliance tool to ensure users are not sending personal health information (PHI) to their personal emails. This also helps to ensure t
  • email alerts
  • explorer to review
  • ability to block sending emails to personal emails
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is well suited for when people are sending emails to their personal emails. this gives us an insight who the guilty parties and stay compliant per HIPAA standards. where Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention lacks is preventing emails to personal emails, its a one shoe fits all scenario
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I setup Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for one of my customers who had an IT setup which had a hybrid environment. They had a office where employees used to work while some of their employees worked from home. We used Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to protect their data from getting leaked outside their network.
  • Identification of sensitive information
  • Stops unwanted sharing of sensitive data
  • Good audit and reporting
  • Complex centralised console
Microsoft Purview Data Loss is suitable for many scenarios. One could be where we need to protect data leakage from our on-premises servers. Another could be a scenario wherein most of the employees work from home and we have no control on what they do at their homes. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention also support a hybrid scenario where some employees work from office and others work from home.
Shubham Jurail | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention held in indentifying sensitive data and protecting from breach, crete & inforce policies to secure data and information, it helps organizations to compliance companies against many standard like HIPPA.
  • Sensitive Data Insights and Analytics
  • Compliance Reporting
  • Policy Enforcement and Remediation
  • Complex Configuration
  • Issue in Integration with Non-Microsoft Ecosystems
  • Limited Customization and Flexibility
  • Less Advance User Education and Awareness
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is Best for Regulatory Compliance Data Governance.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for compliance purposes to search for emails and confirm that we are in fact keeping records for our auditors.
  • Makes records
  • Is a website
  • Is online
  • I feel it is hard to use
  • I believe it is a chaotic mess
  • In my experience, it has terrible documentation
I think Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is very powerful, but it's super hard to use and there is not great documentation to help you.
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