The Purview Periodic Table
All the Purview tools in one place — click any element to see what it actually does (and when you'd use it)
Data Security
Classify and protect data across apps, services, and devices with persistent labels
Prevent unintentional sharing of sensitive items using deep content inspection (now supports AI prompts)
Discover, classify, and protect sensitive information across your estate
Encryption and rights management for documents and emails (classic)
Prevent communication and collaboration between specific groups for compliance
Protection policies for Azure SQL, Data Lake, and Blob Storage (Public Preview)
Detect IP theft, data leakage, security violations, and risky AI usage using ML and signals
Just-in-time access control for privileged administrative tasks
DLP for Microsoft 365 Copilot including prompts in Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Public Preview May 2025)
Control file activities, browser uploads (including AI services) on Windows/Mac endpoints
Data Security Posture Management for AI: visibility into agent activity, unauthenticated access, risky data use (Public Preview May 2025)
Purview SDK for custom agents: Extend DLP, sensitivity labels, audit to AI apps built with Azure AI Foundry (Public Preview May 2025)
Data Governance
AI-powered catalog for data discovery, curation, and governance with self-service access
Automated scanning and classification capturing metadata across your data estate
Bird's eye view of data estate with actionable governance gap insights
End-to-end lineage tracking from source to consumption across systems
Curated groups of assets with business context for easier discovery and use
Organize data by business concepts to distribute ownership and improve access
Risk & Compliance
Manage compliance requirements, risk assessment, and regulatory certifications
Govern record retention, disposition, and legal obligations for M365 content
Search and manage audit records of user and admin activities across M365 services
Search, hold, and export content for legal cases across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams
Retain and delete content across workloads for compliance and risk reduction
Monitor email, Teams, Copilot for regulatory violations, harassment, and sensitive info sharing
Data Classification
Built-in and custom patterns to identify PII, PHI, financial data using regex and functions
ML-based classification using examples rather than pattern matching
Visibility into sensitive data locations filtered by labels and sensitivity types
Monitor activities related to sensitive data: labeling, DLP events, external sharing
Privacy (Priva)
Manage subject rights requests and privacy obligations (GDPR, CCPA)
Microsoft Entra
Entra Agent ID: Unified identity directory for agents with conditional access, governance (Public Preview May 2025)
Azure AI Services
Azure AI Content Safety service with Prompt Shields for jailbreak and prompt injection detection (not part of Purview)