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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

Overview

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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How Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Differs From Its Competitors

Benefits

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is the product which are using for our data protection and so far we are very pleased that it is working as expected to our satification. There was no need of rethinking about usage of this product because it has passed in every activity that it has promised. …
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Migration

The process of adopting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was very exciting as we were researching on multiple products to achieve this goal of implementing a solution to protect the data of the company. We received many positive reviews about this product. We have always liked and …
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Product Evolution

There is always a scope of improvement in every product. i am sure Microsoft must be working on this. I would like to see Machine Learning operations in this as it will simplify most of things. Cost of the product can be revised as well. Although it fulfills everything it promises but cost can …
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Benefits

Within the corporate world, the DLP has made its space by providing the best comprehensive protection using one solution to safeguard all sensitive data. The intelligent detection system have been productive by managing the number of policies and controlling them accordingly, It prevents the …
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Migration

While adopting Purview DLP usage, the ease of access has been feasible due to the feature of the centralized device control and the feature of applying the policies across the platforms; due to this, the DLP automatically prevents data breaches and access to sensitive data with the granular access …
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Product Evolution

This tool is convenient and cost-effective regarding safety, data encryption-preventions, Device control, etc. In the future, it may be possible to replace multiple tools and use them as a single all-in-one as it features device access control and content-aware protection by scanning the data and …
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Benefits

Since moving from Google Workspace and DropBox to MS365 with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we now have a single interface and console for administrering and monitoring DLP policies and compliance across communications, file sharing and file storage which is considerably more efficient …
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Migration

Our reseller RapidScale handled creating most of the Purview DLP policies from the templates that Microsoft provides based on our contractual security policy obligations and best practices. We exported our reports from Google Workspace and matched or enhanced what we used with Google to integrate …
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Product Evolution

Microsoft does offer paid enhancements but the price/feature ratio is skewed towards large enterprise organizations. If there was scalable integration with more 3rd party solutions (eg. AWS cloud storage, other 3rd party conferencing apps like Slack/Zoom, onsite repositories or secure FTP/SecNas) …
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Benefits

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention being a part of and XDR solution much more in-depth logging, activity timeline and hence a better incident management and response experience. A fantastic addition and a great advantage of other DLP solutions for Purview DLP is the ability to also cover cloud …
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Migration

While I was not directly a part of the migration, I can say that the policy migration has been pretty smooth given the wide variety of options in the policy configurations menu. The dashboard migration wasn't possible because Purview DLP provides its own kind of overview dashboard without any …
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Product Evolution

I'd definitely like to see website Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention feature coming in because it is something that many of the DLP providers are already providing. Microsoft can very easily support this at least for Edge and Chrome (it being a managed app in Intune, makes this a possibility) …
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Benefits

Our biggest benefit from this platform is visibility across the entire M365 tenant for data identification and protection. I can see sensitive data stored in OneDrive, Exchange, Sharepoint, etc., without needing to view them all independently.
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Migration

It was fairly easy, though the UI is a bit complex and takes some understanding. It's not a wizard-based all-said-and-done, you have to pick and choose some options and change settings here and there to make it work.
Primarily eDiscovery and information protection (not DLP), identification so we …
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Product Evolution

I hope that MS works on their UIs. I think that they purposefully make them more difficult to use so that they're not the default that everyone uses, but it sucks that you have to know what you're doing to effectively utilize their platforms.
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Benefits

We weren't using any other DLP before this but during the market research it came up best as it was the cheapest solution with this level of features. The implementation was the easiest with zero agents, automatic ingestion of data from O365 Apps and a single pane management controller / dashboard.
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Migration

Smooth and easy. We already had the product in our licenses so no additional headache of figuring out the licenses and procuring them. All we had to do is to just enable it and start creating policies and classifiers and ask users to start labeling documents and other data.
All M365 Apps and …
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Benefits

We have being using DLP since 2018 and Microsoft Purview DLP is exactly what we need for now. it helps with the integrations into Intunes, all the office apps, including word, excel, sharepoint, onedrive, etc. we are still working on to improve it to securely protect our data and email
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Migration

The process was ok. there was hiccups during the process, but everything worked out in the end. As stated before, we are currently making tweaks and improvements to our office365 tenant to make it more efficiently and less time for our team to review all alerts that come through via email
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Product Evolution

I am hoping that the solution will be able to talk to 3rd party applications (Gmail, Yahoo, etc). It would make it easier to see to possibility block an individual from sending out PHI to their personal email. This was give an IT department to security protect information from leaking out
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Benefits

The main benefits which we got from the implementation of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention were:
1. Information classification and labeling. This helped us to identify and label sensitive information which needs to be protected
2. Blocking sharing of sensitive information. Based on the …
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Migration

The process of implementation of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was slightly complex as it involved understanding exactly what were the requirements and how those can be implemented using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
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Benefits

Ease of Integration with M365 Apps and Windows Devices, Centralize Data Discovery Across On-Premises and Cloud Environments,Automated classification and labeling of sensitive data, Integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, and other applications.
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Popular Features

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    8.7
    87%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Director in Engineering
Security & Investigations Company, 10,001+ employees
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Manager in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
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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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  • No setup fee
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  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

Data Loss Prevention across endpoints, apps, & services | Microsoft Purview

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Features

Data Preparation

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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

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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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Reviews and Ratings

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My purview on Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

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Chris Hein
Information Technology Director
CIH (Financial Services, 51-200 employees)
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Feature Ratings
Data Loss Prevention (8)
N/A
N/A
Classification Scanning
N/A
N/A
Email Scanning & Filtering:
N/A
N/A
Policy Based Protection
N/A
N/A
Data Breach Reporting
N/A
N/A
Device Monitoring
N/A
N/A
Data Patterning
N/A
N/A
Incident Response
N/A
N/A
Data Access Control
N/A
N/A
Data Preparation (1)
N/A
N/A
Data Encryption
N/A
N/A
Migration
We have a lot of difficulty using the product.
Compliance for keeping access to records for email/chat.
Product Evolution
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention needs to make it easier to use. It's a mess.
Users and Roles
2
Compliance Team
Support Headcount Required
1
Business Processes Supported
  • Regulation compliance
Future Planned Uses
  • Finding Teams messages
Products Replaced
No
Key Differentiators
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Integration with Other Systems
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I'd ask more question on how to use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
Usability
1
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is super difficult.
Easy Tasks
  • Logging in
Difficult Tasks
  • Searching for emails and chat messages that fit the criteria we need.
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