Microsoft Security Community

Microsoft Purview helps in the world against cyber attacks. There is a security community that you can join for updates.  This blog lists some of the useful upcoming webinars in the Microsoft Purview space. 

SEP 18 2024 Microsoft Purview | Microsoft Purview eDiscovery Modern UX

Discussing the new Purview eDiscovery UI, walk through the new features and discuss how the new UI has been optimized and how the new enhanced features that have been added to help simplify and boost user experience.

OCT 15 2024 Microsoft Purview | Navigating the Future of AI: Understanding the EU AI Act and Its Implications

The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) is a pioneering regulatory framework designed to oversee the development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across the EU. This landmark legislation aims to ensure AI systems are safe, ethical, and transparent, prioritizing the protection of fundamental rights and user safety.

OCT 16 2024 Microsoft Purview | Introduction to Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) | Compliance Manager | Part 1

Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) is a comprehensive approach to managing data throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to archiving and deletion. DLM in Compliance Manager involves a structured approach to managing data through its entire lifecycle within the framework of regulatory and organizational compliance requirements.

Microsoft Purview Data Governance GA Rollout

The new Microsoft  Purview solution is currently being rolled out.  The details on when the region will be available is here: New Microsoft Purview Data Catalog deployment regions (Preview) | Microsoft Learn. 

This new updated tool is critical to make sure data is AI ready across the business. There is a good immersive tour of the Purview Data Governance solution: https://purviewdatagovernance.storylane.io/share/0fu0nmhvphk4

Microsoft Purview: Data Governance Solution is General Availability

The new Microsoft Purview: Data Governance Solution became General Availability 1 September.

This release brings with it a several new capabilities that have added since the public preview launched in April 2024.  This new release focuses on the practice of responsibly federated data governance in built in the application.  The release enables

• modelling and use of durable business concepts to govern evolving and multi-cloud physical data and AI estate
• scale the management of data quality and health in the data estate with the practice of federated data governance, with intelligent automation, and without displacing the people interaction 
• confidently activate responsible discover, understand, and access data in the organization-wide teams and enable users help innovate.

Microsoft Fabric Known Issues

There is a Power BI report that contains the list of known feature issues for the various areas of Microsoft Fabric. The report can be found here.

The AI Hub in Microsoft Purview

The Microsoft Purview AI hub is a preview feature that helps you govern and gain insight to generative AI apps and helps protect through mitigating and managing risks. With the explosion of generative AI this has become a crucial addition in the governance world.

The AI Hub helps with

• strengthening information protection for Copilot
• supporting compliance management for Copilot
• fortifying data security for AI
• insights and analytics that enable that view on AI activity
• policies to help protect and prevent data loss
• compliance for optimal data handling

The use of Purview AI hub works well with other capabilities to improve data security.

• Sensitivity labels and content encrypted by Microsoft Purview Information Protection
• Data classification
• Customer Key
• Communication compliance
• Auditing
• Content search
• eDiscovery
• Retention and deletion
• Customer Lockbox

The insights, policies and control secures data from Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and AI apps from third-party large language modules (LLMs).

The changing new Microsoft Purview Portal

Microsoft unveiled the new Purview portal, a game-changer for organizations navigating the complex landscape of data security and risk management. This change is ongoing within Microsoft Purview with the relocation of portal features and retirement of some features. The new Microsoft Portal features changes

The portal's design facilitates easy navigation with the solution cards for quick access to the solutions within  Risk & Compliance, Data Governance, and Data Security sections.

The key features areas are now

Data Security: covers discovery and protecting sensitive information across your organization with a robust set of data security solutions, including Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection and adaptive protection .

Data Governance: It offers unified data governance solutions to manage services across your on-premises, multi cloud, and SaaS environments. This includes creating an up-to-date map of your data estate with classification, data catalog, data quality (preview), lineage, data management, and data estate insights.

Risk and Compliance: The platform includes solutions to help minimize compliance risks and meet regulatory requirements, ensuring your organization stays ahead of the curve in data protection standards with eDiscovery and audit, communication compliance, data lifecycle management, and records management.

The Growth of Microsoft Purview

It has been an interesting few years watching the growth of a data governance solution into a product that truly helps govern business data. The growth of  Purview has seen many changes over the last few years, to its current incarnation that becomes GA in September. The addition of in-product AI, the Responsible AI tooling, coming in the AI Hub, adds a new dimension, which will enable the next evolution for data governance.  The integration of Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview will help analytics solutions have better quality data out of the box.

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