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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management pros and cons

Vendor: Microsoft
4.0 out of 5

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PROS

Microsoft Purview integrates easily with existing environments, including Active Directory and Microsoft Office applications.
Insider Risk Management offers highly specific and useful graphing, allowing users to access data from the past six months.
The platform provides effective investigation tools following the reception of alerts.
The scoring mechanism is exceptional, eliminating the need to develop new criteria for risk identification.
Filtering options are available for various alerts, such as those related to devices and emails.

CONS

Certain tasks require an agent installation, and a clientless option would simplify processes.
Reporting capabilities could be enhanced for better communication with the C-suite.
Microsoft's pricing is considered very expensive.
The Business Premium offering is limited to 300 users, restricting enterprise customers.
Entry-level IT technicians face challenges in adapting to new systems.
 

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Pros review quotes

AT
Consultant
Sep 21, 2022
The best thing about Purview is that it's easy to integrate with our day-to-day environment. We have Active Directory, and Word and Excel. Using a third-party vendor and trying to integrate with our existing environment would be much more challenging.
DC
IT Consultant at freelancer
May 27, 2024
Insider Risk Management's graphing is highly specific and useful. You can see the last six months of data for the Microsoft tenant. You can easily find what you need. For example, you can filter for alerts about devices, emails, etc.
PR
Manager, Information Technology Security Compliance at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Mar 13, 2025
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management was helpful in performing investigations after alerts were received.
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Karthik Ekambaram - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Scybers
Oct 2, 2025
The scoring mechanism is exceptional because it eliminates the need to reinvent criteria for identifying risks, misconfigurations, or vulnerabilities.
reviewer2778528 - PeerSpot reviewer
IC Sharepoint Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2025
An example of how these features from Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management have benefited my organization is that we recently discovered a foreign actor, someone from North Korea took a job at our company and was pretending to be an employee, and with Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, they notified us of that problem and we were able to remediate the fact that we had a North Korean spy working for us.
 

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Cons review quotes

AT
Consultant
Sep 21, 2022
For certain things, you need to install an agent. I understand it's for integrity, but if there could be a clientless solution for certain aspects, it would make life easier.
DC
IT Consultant at freelancer
May 27, 2024
The user interface also isn't user-friendly. When we introduce Insider Risk Management to our clients, they often find it difficult to understand. There is too much information, and the UI is not scalable. Also, entry-level IT technicians are not always interested in learning something new. It should be clearer and easier to understand.
PR
Manager, Information Technology Security Compliance at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Mar 13, 2025
The reporting capabilities sometimes leave a little to be desired. It could be improved in terms of producing reports to provide information to the C-suite or others.
Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: January 2026.
880,901 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Karthik Ekambaram - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Scybers
Oct 2, 2025
Microsoft's pricing is very expensive. The Business Premium offering should be extended to enterprise customers, as it's currently limited to 300 users.
reviewer2778528 - PeerSpot reviewer
IC Sharepoint Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 19, 2025
My experience with the deployment of Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management was a fifty-fifty situation because we have a very diverse network, and not all of it is on Microsoft products.