Microsoft Purview is a platform that allows you to discover, manage and secure all your available data. It is used to classify, secure, manage and facilitate access to data for specific user groups.
It is suitable for use in both small and large organizations because it can be purchased as a service, meaning that the service evolves continuously. It is made for both security, privacy & data officers and data users, for example, data analysts. The service consists of the following components:
Making data insightful
Microsoft Purview provides support for discovering data in different sources, such as data warehouses, data lakes and databases like e.g. SQL Server, Oracle, Cosmos & MySQL. These data sources are presented in a clear overview and can be categorized into (data) domains relevant to your organization.
Protecting data
Microsoft Purview also provides advanced security and privacy features and it can be used to manage data based on policies and rules, for example, scanning data for sensitive personal data such as BSN and Passport numbers. Also, it provides capabilities to
countering data breaches.
Data documented & searchable
In addition, it provides a searchable & structured view of all data sources within your organization through a data catalog.
Sharing data
It is also possible to share data with (external) target groups such as (chain) partners without it leaving your organization. Finally, it is possible to manage rights to specific data using Microsoft Purview.
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