Why choose Microsoft Purview Suite for Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Sensitive data often lives across apps, endpoints, and cloud services, making governance harder as AI adoption grows. This solution brief shows how Microsoft Purview Suite extends Microsoft 365 Business Premium with integrated data security, risk management, and compliance capabilities. Download the brief to see how you can protect sensitive information and govern data across your environment.
What is Microsoft Purview Suite for Microsoft 365 Business Premium?
Microsoft Purview Suite is an add-on to Microsoft 365 Business Premium that brings together data security, compliance, and governance capabilities in one place. It’s designed for organizations that are starting to use generative AI and want to manage the related risks without adding a lot of separate tools.
With Purview Suite, you can:
- Secure and govern your data estate so you’re better prepared for AI adoption.
- Apply intelligent compliance and risk management across clouds, apps, and endpoints.
- Investigate and respond to legal and regulatory requirements using relevant data.
The suite consolidates capabilities that are often licensed separately—such as Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Data Lifecycle Management, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, eDiscovery (including Premium), and Audit (including Premium). When purchased as the Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium, it can help you save **up to 47% per license** compared to buying these capabilities individually.
In short, Purview Suite helps you rethink how you secure and govern data in the age of AI, while staying aligned with regulatory expectations and budget constraints.
How does Purview Suite help manage AI-related data risks?
Microsoft Purview Suite focuses on the specific data risks that come with generative AI, such as oversharing, data leakage, and risky AI usage patterns.
Key ways it helps:
1. **Address oversharing and data leaks**
- Gain visibility into overshared content across clouds, apps, and endpoints.
- Remediate excessive permissions so fewer people and apps have unnecessary access.
- Prevent generative AI tools from processing sensitive files.
2. **Protect against data loss and insider risks**
- Get alerts and reports on risky behavior and AI use, including how users interact with AI tools.
- Protect sensitive files and Copilot interactions with data loss prevention and information protection policies.
- Dynamically apply security policies based on risky actions, not just static rules.
3. **Improve AI governance and visibility**
- Inspect interaction content and audit logs related to AI usage.
- Investigate for compliance, ethical violations, or misuse of AI tools.
- Enforce lifecycle policies and legal holds on data that may be used by or generated from AI.
These capabilities align with what many security leaders say they need most. Recent findings highlight that:
- A majority of leaders cite **leakage of sensitive data as their number one concern** with generative AI.
- Many security leaders say **identification of risky users based on queries into AI** is one of the top AI controls they want to implement.
Purview Suite is built to give you the visibility and controls you need to reimagine how you manage AI-related data risks, without slowing down innovation.
How does Purview Suite support regulatory compliance and governance?
Microsoft Purview Suite is designed to help you align your data practices with regulatory and governance needs as you expand your use of AI and cloud services.
Here’s how it supports compliance and governance:
1. **Built-in regulatory coverage**
- Includes assessments and recommended actions for **350+ regional regulations**, helping you map your controls to common compliance requirements.
2. **Unified governance capabilities**
- Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention to classify and protect sensitive data.
- Data Lifecycle Management to enforce retention, deletion, and legal holds.
- Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance to identify and address risky or non-compliant behavior.
3. **eDiscovery and audit for investigations**
- eDiscovery (including Premium) to collect, preserve, and review data for legal matters.
- Audit (including Premium) to provide detailed logs and visibility into user and admin actions, including AI-related interactions.
4. **AI use governance**
- Inspect AI interaction content and related audit logs.
- Investigate potential compliance or ethical violations tied to AI use.
- Apply policies that govern how data is used in AI apps and tools.
By bringing these capabilities together as an add-on to Microsoft 365 Business Premium, Purview Suite helps you reshape your compliance and governance approach for the AI era—supporting regulatory readiness while keeping your data estate more secure and well-governed.