Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Reviews

My main use case for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is exfiltration, so if companies may have some sensitive information that they labeled in the first place or don't want to leak, then Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, because of the ecosystem, is the first choice.

The features of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention are quite impressive, particularly the ability to scope policies to devices, which is something that most companies value because it has direct feedback to the user and it takes away the possibility to, for example, put in a USB stick and transfer data to it, so that has the most impact.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention benefits the companies that we consult, as they would feel safer, and it also provides visibility; if a user comes up to you and says they are blocked and cannot exfiltrate this data anymore, it gives them a sense of security.

I would say the improvement of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention could be in the propagation of policies, as if you create a policy, it may take up to 48 hours to propagate to devices, and this might take a little bit longer than ideal.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for about six years.

Microsoft Purview is a stable and reliable platform, as it depends on how stable you want it to be—you can always pay more and get better reliability or more availability, so it is up to you.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales very well with the growing needs of my company; I don't know any product that does so, to be honest.

I haven't had contact with customer service and technical support for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention so far, so I assume it is good.

I have not been using another solution that meets the same needs before Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

I would describe my experience with the deployment process of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as being conducted well and integrated effectively; it is not that easy to implement, but with a little bit of expertise, you will get there.

From my point of view as a user of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, the biggest return on investment is not directly tied to return of investment; it is more of an effective cost center, as IT is still a cost center in most companies, and I would say this solution is not a return of investment solution, but it is more about safeguarding that it is not getting worse with anything.

The pricing for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is generally set; E5 is required, but it comes with all other products, so I would say it is fine.

I have never considered switching to another solution.

The impact of Microsoft Purview's classification and policy controls on user productivity within my company completely depends on how strict you are with the policies, but in general, it can be however you want it to be.

I assess Microsoft Purview's ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information with my company as effective; it works.

I utilize the machine learning-driven analysis offered by Microsoft Purview.

From a Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention perspective, I rate the impact on my data classification process as great; it is good.

Microsoft Purview has helped improve my company's ability to discover sensitive data, as most companies would say that they improved in the whole posture on this field.

In the age of AI, there is always this problem with data; we use data and we make more of it, basically. For example, if you ask Copilot to generate a new file, that generates new data—not necessarily new, as it just strips whatever you have already—but it generates a new file that has to be stored correctly or has to be viewed only by privileged people because it may contain sensitive information. So because of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention that we implemented, or all the other solutions in Purview, we can secure companies in that way so that it doesn't leave the boundaries that they set.

My experience with centralizing my DLP program in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is great; I don't know if there is any other way. To my knowledge, there is no way of decentralizing this part of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, so if they would in the future, that would be great, but so far it is centralized.

My advice to other companies that are considering Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to start small. Starting small means to take it step by step; the whole suite or product is quite overwhelming, so I would definitely not start with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, but as soon as you have figured out the other steps before that you have to take, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is a great way to get auditability or visibility to it, and after that to restrict it.

For browser capabilities in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, it works most of the time. I would rate this review an overall eight out of ten.

My main use case is to upload mailboxes. We're using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to upload mailboxes. The migration tool that's built into the Microsoft Hybrid isn't working on our domain. We're a government contractor, so we have policies, and I believe that one of those policies is preventing it from going up. We have two domains. The other one worked fine. The second domain, we weren't able to migrate. So we had to use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

My favorite feature about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is actually quite simple. There's a handful of things that you do. You create a new batch. It'll give you a unique ID. You copy that unique ID, it's a URL, and then you can put that into a script that we wrote so we just paste that in our script and then it uses that URL to upload all of those mailboxes, and then we can use that to import. The simplicity of that interface is what I appreciate most.

I assess the ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information within the organization by locking it down to security groups so that only administrators have access.

I think that a feature on the side where you could click on something with a question mark, and then if you click on it, it would open up a new window and give you more information on that, almost as a training tool for the website that you're already logged into and already connected to, could be improved in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

I see that there's a lot of content in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, and when I click on it and look around, I wonder what certain features do, but there's not enough documentation and explanation.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for one year.

I assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as having no issues. If I'm using it on a system that doesn't kick me out and I go back, it does log me out and it says, 'You've been logged out.' I appreciate that. I know that a lot of sites don't do that. I've been logged into other systems and still logged in multiple hours later. I've never had Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention go down, and it has never given me any issues.

I did not use customer service. I never needed to.

Neutral

I did not consider other solutions before starting with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. We reached out to a third-party vendor to help us with the migrations. They suggested it and said that there's an option of doing this a different way. So we sat down several weeks and several months later, we created the script, tested it, got the bugs out, and then ended up using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. It worked the way they said it would.

I can describe the deployment of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as a website, so it's just a matter of logging into it.

It only takes a few clicks and that's it.

I can say that I've seen a return on investment from Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention because it's allowed us to do the migration for all the users so that we can move forward with other projects that are relying on the users to be in the cloud.

My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it goes up to upper management. I am involved with licensing. I do a lot of testing, so if I create an account in the cloud without a license, I have to go and license it. That may not be the same question that it's asking, but regarding pricing, setup, and cost, I'm not involved with that too much.

I do not use the machine learning analysis yet.

I can say that Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention helped improve my ability to discover sensitive data by now knowing that we can do that. We do have a security department that will send us emails or tickets saying, 'Hey, we received spam. Can you take it off everybody's mailbox?' If Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention can do that behind the scenes, or even through AI within Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, that would be very interesting.

My experience with centralizing our DLP program is not that extensive. We just recently moved to the cloud.

I would rate this product a nine overall.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to monitor, detect, and prevent sensitive information from being shared or copied, or to prevent transferring files outside the organization. This is the main use case.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used to identify sensitive information such as financial records, customer data, and confidential business documents. Policies can automatically block users when they attempt to send any sensitive data through email or any kind of application.

The best features of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention are multiple, including sensitive data discovery, endpoint DLP, policy-based enforcement, and compliance reporting.

Endpoint DLP is the most valuable feature because it extends data protection control directly to the user device.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has impacted the organization very positively by strengthening data security through automatically detecting and protecting sensitive information across emails, endpoints, SharePoint, and OneDrive. It has helped reduce the risk of data leaks and improve compliance with regulatory requirements.

After implementing Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, approximately a 40% reduction in accidental sensitive data sharing has been observed, and compliance monitoring has been improved.

The AI-driven classification and detection capabilities of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention help strengthen governance by identifying sensitive information, enforcing protection policies, and supporting regulatory compliance requirements.

The content inspection and classification capabilities of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention are reliable and very effective in identifying sensitive information, providing accurate data.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is a powerful solution. The only thing that needs to be improved is an easier policy troubleshooting process. Apart from this, everything is excellent.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has been used for almost three years.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is a very stable solution.

The scalability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is excellent and handles the organization's requirements effectively.

Customer support for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is excellent because support is available at any time. Whenever there is a technical issue, a ticket can be raised with the support team, and they provide support on a call to troubleshoot the issue.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has been used since the beginning, with no switching from another solution.

The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was straightforward because there is a strong partnership with the vendor sales team, who are helpful in addressing setup costs and licensing matters.

The implementation team consists of a partnership with the vendor of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

A good return on investment has been seen with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Time and money have been saved because the solution has reduced data leakage incidents, improved compliance, and provided very good visibility.

The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was straightforward because there is a strong partnership with the vendor sales team, who are helpful in addressing setup costs and licensing matters.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention should be considered as one of the best solutions present in the market. It is recommended to start with the monitoring mode before enforcing policies and to understand the sensitive data landscape while fine-tuning policies very carefully. This review has been given a rating of 9.

My main use cases involve trying to prevent sensitive files from leaving the company. Any sensitive data that the business has marked as should not be able to leave the company is stopped at the email level, providing significant benefits to our organization.

The feature I appreciate most about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is the simplicity of labeling files. The classification of policy controls by Microsoft Purview impacts my user productivity in a positive way, but more from a security perspective, helping me more than the user. It finds social security numbers in the files when we scan for it, so that we can prevent those from leaving the company.

To improve Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I think it would be helpful if we could make bulk labeling easier, as it is a little cumbersome at the moment. The bulk labeling process is a challenge that could use improvement to make it easier, but the user experience is relatively simple, which is good.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for about a year.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales well with the growing needs of my organization. I have expanded usage, and it is an ongoing project. The process of expansion takes a lot of effort from the end-users, but the results are good.

Prior to adopting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I was not using another solution to address similar needs.

I would describe my experience with deploying Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as positive.

I was not really involved in the deployment; one of my team members did that.

I have seen a return on investment with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing is that everything is included in our enterprise licensing, so there are no particular pluses or minuses.

Before selecting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I considered solutions like Saiara and Concentrix. What stood out in my evaluation process, either positively or negatively, when comparing the options is that the integration with Microsoft Office and the file system makes it a plus for us.

I assess Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information within my organization as working well. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has helped improve my organization's ability to discover sensitive data. We have not seen any sensitive files leave via email, which represents a significant improvement. My advice to another organization considering Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to give it a try, as it works well with the integration, is relatively simple for the end-users, and the users appreciate it. I would rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention overall as an eight out of ten.

Deploy the whole solution for customers that are starting from zero to hero. The implementation framework for data protection goes as follows:

-Identification of information assets

-Protection, which means placing technological controls to protect the flow of data

-Monitoring through the different dashboards that the portal offers.

The other side of the coin is the internal user monitoring; at the end they are the ones handling the data, this can be archived with IRM, DSPM, CC.

The feature I value most about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is its native synchronization with all the Office applications that customers already use. Unlike other solutions in the market, such as CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, and Cato, which also provide DLP capabilities, these tools are not able to fully interpret encrypted documents generated by Purview. While they offer strong controls, they cannot manage information with the same level of depth as Microsoft Purview DLP due to its native integration within the Microsoft ecosystem.

The main benefit for organizations is the ability to leverage a technological control that operates natively within their existing Microsoft environment. This enables them to effectively define and govern the flow of data.

When assessing Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and its ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information within my organization, I would consider it a strong solution. However, there is a key limitation: the licensing model can be expensive for many customers.

With a base license, organizations can apply controls within the Microsoft environment. However, extending these capabilities to non-Microsoft domains requires an E5 license, which represents a significant investment. Not all organizations have the budget to afford this level of licensing. While the controls themselves are effective, I believe the pricing model should be adjusted based on region, as what is affordable in the United States may not be in other regions. Therefore, pricing should be reviewed or adapted accordingly.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for two and a half years.

Our use cases for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention include particularly email egress where we're looking for certain types of data to block, primarily for data exfiltration prevention and to combat malicious traffic.

Based on what I've seen, I've anticipated that the use case where we use the most true positives helps us categorize certain emails, allowing us to decide which ones need more attention based on sensitivity, unlike someone's email about marketing.

The features have helped our organization as we can take action as necessary if something appears to be a serious violation. We can take fast corrective action as necessary.

The feature I find most valuable that I'm currently using is the quickness of the emails that the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention solution sends to us, where we get notifications that say a user has potentially breached our data guideline rules, and we get those alerts continuously, allowing us to enforce them manually. We can triage based on quick and sometimes constant alerts.

The impact of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's classification and policy controls on our productivity within our organization is significant, as it's helped our security team. We can quickly categorize and try to weed out false positives in an ongoing process, especially in a large firm with many different emails going on every day.

My experience with centralizing our DLP program on Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has helped us weed out false positives and leverage that information to go back to the business, informing them on security awareness and how our security posture is being affected by team members misusing privileged information.

It's helping to improve our organization's security posture as we are on that journey, with ongoing in-flight projects here. 

Regarding saving time or money, we haven't really quantified in terms of money yet; we are still a little younger than full data categorization for security, however, I expect about 40% to 50% of our time was spent chasing false positives, especially among a certain class of users in the US versus some offshore counterparts.

I find the comprehensive coverage of our DLP, firewall, and endpoint solutions essential, which encompasses the whole SOC2 compliance process.

Improving Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention would involve recognizing that the whole AI path we are all on is going to help, given the massive amount of data we handle; even if there are true positives, implementing a degree of severity ranking is essential.

We do have to deal with a lot of false positives, particularly at the outset. 

I've been using the solution for as long as it's been around. 

I haven't had issues with stability.

I've seen no issues with scalability. 

On a scale of one to ten, I would rate my experience with support in the high seven to eight range, although there was a specific problem with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention regarding hashing that dropped this score due to communication issues with engineers. We went through a reseller and had issues. Once we got to the Microsoft engineers, the experience was great. The reseller being between us was nightmarish. Typically, support is very good. 

Positive

In my current organization, prior to adopting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we were using Microsoft DLP, which was one of the earlier solutions.

The learning curve is hard at first in terms of weeding out false positives and refining that process. AI will help with that. Rather than fine-tuning taking months, we're hoping it will get faster. 

I cannot quantify a return on investment specifically; however, for our security posture, I have seen some slight improvement in my teams' reports. From a pure financial perspective, I do not have that information.

My experience with the pricing, setup costs, and licensing is not something I manage directly since I'm the owner operator; my colleagues might be more involved with that aspect as we have other teams to handle those details.

I'm committed to our current path.

I would assess the usability of authorized shares of sensitive information as a process still in the works. My hope is that we're doing great, and the expectation is high for future outcomes.

Currently, I do not utilize the machine learning for anomalies that is offered by Purview.

On a scale of one to ten, I rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention a six out of ten. The amount of false positives and the hash issue we had have brought down the score for me.

I have good hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Admin portal, Azure portal, and the tools that XDR includes such as Microsoft Defender for EDR and O365. I use all of these tools daily.

I have good hands-on experience working with the Face API, which I used in the past six months. I do not use it every day because I work as a cybersecurity analyst.

Overall, I have been working with the Face API for some project work spanning eight to ten months.

I utilize the machine learning driven analysis offered by Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has helped to improve my organization's ability to discover sensitive data.

Classification and policy controls enhance productivity and user experience.

There are specific missing features that I would like to see included in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention in the future.

I have been working with the Face API for more than two years.

I assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as good.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales well with the growing needs of my organization.

I have escalated questions to technical support and would rate the technical support as a five on a scale of one to ten, where ten is the best.

Positive

The initial setup and deployment of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was straightforward, but I faced some challenges and complexities during the process.

I use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for various main use cases and for data governance purposes.

The main disadvantages of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention in comparison to the Netscope product are notable considerations.

Classification and policy controls impact user productivity within the organization.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information is valuable.

The deployment experience with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention involved both positive aspects and challenges. The solution operates on a cloud-based, Azure-based DLP model.

I purchased Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention through Microsoft directly.

My experience with centralizing my DLP program in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has been informative, and I can share advice and recommendations with other organizations considering this solution.

I recommend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to other organizations considering a data loss prevention solution.

I am an end user of Microsoft products and work as a system analyst at Stratogent company.

Overall, I would rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as a product and solution with a rating of ten on a scale of one to ten.

We use it for scheduled audit log retrieval on a monthly basis. We have strictly confidential SharePoint sites and requests come in where we have to find out the activity by users, such as who has viewed specific files or pages on a particular site. The logs contain activity by users and are part of Microsoft Purview. We can run search queries against the logs to get user activity across the tenant for a particular, confidential site.

The solution has tools for creating robotic process automation and workflows and we use them to reduce manual intervention and to handle some of the manual jobs. They make things much faster and more accurate. Of course, it involves much more testing and back and forth, but once you streamline an automated process, it's easy and accurate. It saves a lot of time because you don't need to have a manual monitoring system. Rather, the system identifies things and notifies you. It can save costs on the order of 60 or 70 percent.

With automation, the quality of insights has improved a lot. Manual processes have been replaced with something like a bot. It creates a more consistent pattern that gives you proper analytics and insights into how activities are being carried out.

Also, compliance can be viewed in real time to a certain extent. A small portion is not available in real time, but 70 to 80 percent of it is accessible in real time. Overall, Purview helps us to stay on top of compliance because it handles just about all the compliance factors.

One of the valuable features of Purview is the ability to create a legal hold on a user's account within the compliance portal. That's pretty useful when it comes to any litigation or if you want to redeem the content within a mailbox, OneDrive, or a generic public SharePoint site. If you want to retain the user's data until the case is resolved, you can use the legal hold feature.

Also, it's important that Purview can connect to iOS, Mac, and Android devices. With smartphone involvement, so many applications can now be accessed through them and it is important to apply Purview across operating systems and platforms.

Purview's natively integrated compliance across Azure Dynamics and Office 365 is also significant because within Microsoft 365 there are multiple applications. Irrespective of whether it's Dynamics or Azure, it's very important that it has native support. The data connectivity should be efficient enough to support and secure their own platform's data.

In addition, with varying regulations in different industries and matters, Purview lets you create rules and conditions based on industry standards around the world. That is important. Our company is in pharmaceuticals and the rules and conditions are different from other industries. It is important to be able to keep track of all these regulations and have a tool that is flexible enough to create the regulatory rules and conditions we need.

And when it comes to data loss protection, Purview has features that can recognize patterns and detect any sort of data loss, where the data is being transferred from its platform to a different one. The default settings that come with it are pretty nice for identifying data transfer or data loss across the platform.

It also comes with a lot of training materials, with use cases and examples, to help educate users and make them familiar with the tool.

A site can have different containers where you store data. We have always wanted to apply compliance, labels, and policies at the container level, rather than to an outer shell or at the site level. That is something we have been looking forward to and I believe Microsoft is already planning something like that.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for less than a year.

It's a little bit pricey compared to competitors, but it's not too high. On a scale from one to 10, where 10 is expensive, it's a seven.

Overall, it's a very nice product and can handle a lot of applications.