Excellent, adaptable and scalable Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 E5 and Azure users
February 12, 2024

Excellent, adaptable and scalable Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 E5 and Azure users

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.
  • Allows us to be in compliance with a number of DoD contract obligations without resorting to 3rd party data access or additional product purchases.
  • Policy deployment from policy templates is relatively easy and quick. Allows a small 3 person IT team to deploy DLP policies and changes quickly.
  • Single pane of glass dashboard and policy monitoring make administration straight fowled
There are much more comprehensive and granular DLP solutions out there like Trellix and Sophos but ultimately they are expensive and require significant administrative oversight for implementation and deployment. For a company of our size, they are just not economically feasible. We purchased out 365 E5 tenant with Purview DLP integration from a reseller at a price that we couldn't compete with vs a standalone enterprise product.

Do you think Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention again?

Yes

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)

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Feature Ratings

Data Loss Prevention
8.0
Classification Scanning
10
Email Scanning & Filtering:
9
Policy Based Protection
9
Data Patterning
5
Incident Response
8
Data Access Control
7
Data Preparation
6.0
Data Encryption
6

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