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Data security

Secure your data

Strengthen data security with a comprehensive approach that combines data and user context across your estate, devices, and generative AI applications.
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Overview

Industry-leading data security solutions

  • Gain visibility and uncover hidden risks to your data—wherever it lives or travels—using AI-driven, aggregated insights with correlated data and user context.
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  • Protect data and prevent its unauthorized use across clouds, devices, and generative AI applications with flexible controls that help balance protection and productivity.
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  • Respond to data security incidents at machine speed using AI insights correlated across an integrated set of products.
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Products

Secure data with industry-leading and integrated products

Microsoft Purview Information Protection

Discover, classify, and protect sensitive data throughout its lifecycle.
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Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

Prevent unauthorized or accidental use of sensitive data across apps, services, and devices.
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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

Understand user activity context around the data and identify risks.
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Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview

Discover how Adaptive Protection can help you balance security and productivity—now available in preview. 
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Microsoft Copilot for Security

Protect more efficiently with generative AI insights and natural-language guidance embedded in Microsoft Purview.
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Take a comprehensive approach to data security

Discover sensitive data and protect it from misuse with integrated data security tools from Microsoft.
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True crime: Inside a data breach

Learn how an insider caused a type of data breach that Microsoft Purview is designed to prevent.
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News

Secure your data in the age of AI

Discover sensitive data, identify critical risks, and tailor controls based on users’ risk levels.
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Industry recognition

Recognized by top industry analysts

  • Microsoft was recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1, 2023.1
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  • According to Gartner, security and risk management leaders should focus on risk-based adaptive data protection techniques to strengthen the data security of their organization.2, 3
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 Customer stories

Here’s what our customers are saying

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“We’re using Microsoft Purview to keep Grupo Bimbo data more secure, more proactively than ever before.”
Alejandro Cuevas, Global Director of IT, Risk, and Compliance, Grupo Bimbo
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“Our primary mission was to raise security awareness among employees. The introduction of Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management and Microsoft Purview Information Protection triggered a big shift in employee awareness.”
Masataka Takaguchi, Security Management Office Head, NTT
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“For a minimal operational spend, we deployed the solution to every member of the global EY organization, which answers our information protection needs.”
Usman Abubakar Ehimeakhe, AD, Technical Lead of EY Microsoft 365 Services
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“Protecting data in flight is more difficult than data at rest. We adopted Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention because we’re hyper-focused on helping secure data end to end.”
Kiran Ramineni, VP, Fannie Mae
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“We’ve found that Microsoft gets closer to the data than any other vendor. We benefit from getting our business apps, security, and DLP tooling from the same source because they all work together seamlessly.” 
Jacob Kralt, Product Owner for Office 365 Compliance, Rabobank
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Resource library

Explore data security resources and trends

Gain insights into the latest data security advancements, including expert guidance, best practices, trends, and solutions.
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Resources

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Blog

Data security news

See what’s new with product announcements and industry best practices for data security.
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Guides 

Interactive data security guides

See how Microsoft Security products help prevent data breaches and other security incidents with these interactive guides.
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Video

Data security with Information Protection

Learn how Information Protection provides the visibility you need to manage risks appropriately.
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Podcast

Uncovering Hidden Risks

Listen to Microsoft experts discuss their latest research and why more tools bring less security.
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Secure identities and network access

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Respond to cyberthreats faster with the actionable insights and natural-language queries.
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Privacy and risk management

Protect privacy and mitigate risks

Identify and remediate risks with built-in privacy controls, investigation tools, and AI.
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Protect your entire data estate

Empower your organization with a data security platform built for today’s cybersecurity landscape.
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[1] The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023, Heidi Shey with Amy DeMartine, Sarah Morana, Christine Turley, March 2023.

[2] Gartner, Market Guide for Data Loss Prevention, By  Ravisha Chugh,  Andrew Bales, 4 September 2023. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

[3] Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.