Data loss prevention for email, files, Teams, devices and Copilot, plus sensitivity labels, encryption, retention, eDiscovery, audit and insider risk.
Use Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI to find overshared content before Copilot surfaces it, run data risk assessments, turn on one-click policies and fix the right sites first.
Get Windows devices into Purview endpoint DLP, decode the Configuration status and Policy sync status columns, fix Defender prerequisites and verify with advanced hunting.
Quick reference for Purview retention and label policy statuses, Teams and SharePoint retention messages, records and disposition, mailbox holds and audit search errors.
Configure Purview Audit beyond the defaults: licenses and the Advanced Auditing plan, mailbox audit actions, search query events, audit retention policies and MailItemsAccessed.
Look up a Purview DLP message: default policy tips and notification emails, Teams flags, endpoint just-in-time events, diagnostic results and policy states, with cause and first check.
How Adaptive Protection turns Insider Risk Management signals into Elevated, Moderate and Minor risk levels that tighten DLP, Conditional Access and retention for risky users only.
Label and protect sensitive content, stop it leaking with DLP, and fix oversharing before Microsoft 365 Copilot surfaces it.
Start the series 11 partsDesign your first DLP policies, tune them in simulation, then handle what users and admins meet in Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
Start the series 5 partsOnboard devices to Purview, set the endpoint DLP rules for USB, printing and cloud uploads, then cover browsers and Macs.
Start the series 8 partsRoll out labels, make them appear in every app, auto-label at scale, label Teams and sites, and fix access to encrypted files.
Start the series 8 partsKeep and delete data on purpose, find it again when legal asks, and prove who did what with the audit log.
Start the series 4 partsFind oversharing before Copilot does, then use DLP, labels and insider risk to keep sensitive data out of AI answers.
Start the seriesDLP policies for Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams: rules, policy tips, overrides, alerts and tuning
Onboarding Windows and macOS devices, USB, printing, browsers, cloud uploads and restricted apps
Sensitive information types, exact data match, trainable classifiers, content explorer and the scanner
Labels and label policies, auto-labeling, Office apps, containers, SharePoint and OneDrive
Azure Rights Management, protected files, Message Encryption, double key encryption and Customer Key
Retention policies and labels, records management, adaptive scopes and preservation holds
eDiscovery cases, searches, holds and exports, and the audit log
Insider risk management, communication compliance and information barriers
Data security for Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI apps: DLP for Copilot and DSPM for AI
Roles and permissions, Security & Compliance PowerShell and study plans
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