Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Reviews

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used for monitoring and preventing sensitive data exfiltration across Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and endpoints. From a SOC's perspective, we primarily use it for real-time DLP policy enforcement, insider risk reduction, and alerting on unauthorized sharing, copy, or upload activities involving sensitive data.

We had a case where a user attempted to upload files containing customer financial data and PAN details to a personal cloud storage account from an unmanaged endpoint. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention detected the sensitive information types in real time, blocked the upload, generated a high-security alert, and allowed the SOC team to investigate it immediately as a potential insider risk case.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has positively impacted our organization by significantly improving our capability to detect and prevent sensitive data exfiltration across endpoints, email, Teams, SharePoint, and cloud apps from a centralized platform.

From a SOC perspective, incident visibility and investigation quality improved because DLP alerts are correlated with users, device, and identity activity in Defender XDR. It also strengthened our compliance posture by enforcing consistent data handling policies across remote and hybrid work environments.

We have reduced sensitive data leakage incidents by roughly 50 to 60 percent after implementing endpoint DLP and stricter Microsoft 365 DLP policy. SOC investigation time has improved by 30 to 40 percent because DLP alerts are enriched with endpoint identity and user activity context in Defender XDR. Compliance audit preparation also became faster, approximately 40 percent less manual effort due to centralized reporting, labeling, and policy enforcement visibility.

One standout feature about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is the tight integration with Insider Risk Management and Defender XDR, as it gives much better context during investigations instead of treating DLP as an isolated alerting tool. We also use endpoint DLP heavily to control USB, copy, print, clipboard, and browser upload activity, which has been very effective for remote workforce security.

The best features Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention offers include real-time policy enforcement, endpoint DLP, and deep integration with Microsoft 365 plus Defender XDR. We also heavily rely on sensitive information type detection, adaptive policy tips, and insider risk integration to investigate suspicious user behavior with proper context. Another standout feature is the ability to control USB copy, browser uploads, print clipboards, and cloud sharing actions directly from endpoint policies.

The integration with Microsoft Defender 365 and Defender XDR helps our team in day-to-day operations because DLP alerts are automatically correlated with endpoint identity, email, and user activity telemetry, which helps the SOC investigate incidents much faster from a single workflow. The sensitive information type detection makes a difference compared to other tools we have used because it is more effective than many legacy DLP tools. It understands context, exact data patterns, document labeling, and Microsoft 365 native content, reducing false positives while improving detection accuracy.

Another strong feature of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is auto-labeling and policy inheritance with Microsoft's Information Protection, which helps maintain protection even after files are shared or moved across workloads. We also value the user coaching or policy tip capability because it educates users in real time instead of only blocking actions, which reduces repeated DLP violations significantly.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention can be improved as the endpoint DLP policy tuning can be complex in large environments, especially when balancing security with user productivity. False positives still happen with certain sensitive information types and custom classifiers, which increases SOC tuning effort. We would like to have stronger third-party SaaS visibility or integration and more flexible reporting and dashboard customization for enterprise-level operations.

I have been working in this field for eight years. We have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for the last two years.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's overall stability has been good in our experience. We have not faced challenges related to performance or lagginess or slowness in the product.

The scalability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has been strong for us, especially in large Microsoft 365 environments with distributed endpoints and users across multiple customers. It handles a high volume of DLP events, endpoint activity, and cross-workload policy enforcement without major performance issues.

Customer support for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is generally good, especially for standard DLP policy configuration and Microsoft 365 integration issues. For complex cases involving endpoint DLP behavior, false positives, or cross-product correlation, it sometimes requires escalation to the senior team, where the resolution time is slow.

We were using the DLP of Symantec. We switched to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention because it provides much tighter integration with Microsoft Defender 365 and Defender XDR, endpoint telemetry, and compliance workflows. Managing separate DLP infrastructure and endpoint agents with legacy tools created more operational overhead and slower investigation times.

The setup cost was moderate, and the deployment was straightforward. The licensing complexity is one of the biggest challenges since features are distributed across Purview, Defender, and compliance SKUs, which can be confusing during a large-scale, multi-customer deployment.

We have seen a clear return on investment, which is noticeable for us. We have reduced sensitive data leakage incidents by 50 to 60 percent, which has lowered compliance and breach-related risks significantly. The SOC investigation and triage time dropped by 40 to 45 percent because DLP alerts are centralized and correlated with endpoint and identity telemetry. We also avoided adding dedicated monitoring resources since automated policy enforcement and user coaching reduced repetitive manual review work.

The pricing for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was manageable for us because we already had Microsoft 365 and Purview-related licensing, but advanced DLP and insider risk features became expensive when we scaled at the enterprise level.

We evaluated Forcepoint DLP and McAfee Total Protection for DLP before choosing Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Those solutions had mature standalone DLP capabilities, especially for network-level controls, but they required higher infrastructure and separate management workflows. We chose Purview mainly for its native 365 integration, endpoint visibility, and unified security compliance ecosystem.

I would advise others looking into using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to choose this product and start with the visibility and audit mode first before enabling block policies. Otherwise, false positives can impact business operations quickly. We would also recommend that you integrate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention with Defender XDR, Insider Risk Management, and endpoint controls to get a full investigation context and strong insider threat coverage. I have given this product a review rating of eight.

We have really started in the last three to four years picking up and ramping up. We have a lot more clients who are trying to hit CMMC compliancy from the government or they care about the data a lot more than others. So we really started focusing on the security side and said, 'Okay, this is what our clients are looking at. So I want to make sure that we are doing the same thing and then going above and beyond for other clients who may just not be thinking about that.' So now we go back to them and say, 'Look, we've done it for these bigger clients, now the smaller ones we're going to come after you. Let's look at your data. Let's make sure it's protected and how it goes.' Having classified data means that for data loss prevention, anything that has a label or sensitivity or how it's classified, we want to make sure that they understand how that data is going outbound because we had a lot of clients who said, 'Oh, I lost my work cell phone. What do I do?' And the answer is if you had that, then it would be different.

We never used another solution before because a lot of our clients at the time, as an MSP, when trying to work with them, the issue we always run into is that they get into 365 and say, 'Okay, that project's done,' and they don't care about it after that. Having this ability is now turning back around and going to the client and saying, 'Okay, you've been in 365 for a couple months. Congratulations. Now we're going to start looking at your data and making sure it's protected. How is your data going to stay from going outside the company if you need it to?'

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention makes it way easier to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information within the organization. Without it, it's impossible to prevent sharing because people will just click share. Having Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention with that ability, for the reporting and for admins to get alerts saying, 'Hey, this file, this email tried to go outbound, go talk to the user.' You can block this email, you can block the attachments from going out, and then you can turn back around to the user and say, 'Okay, you're going to get some user training. You're not supposed to share data that's confidential. Why did you?' And they either say, 'Oh, I didn't realize it was, I didn't know' or 'Well, you caught me. I'm trying to do' something, either malicious or non-malicious.

We do not utilize machine learning-driven analysis for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention right now, but it is one thing that we are getting a couple more clients in the E5 realm with licensing that gives us that ability. I would really like to start using that and really start turning on the machine learning to say, 'Okay, you run with this and you let me know if that's flagging.'

My favorite feature is just knowing that I can trust Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to do the job I need it to do. If I set it up a certain way and make sure that the data stays protected, no matter if it's a cell phone, a tablet, or work laptop, that data is going to be protected whether I try to save it or deny that save and say, 'Look, you can only view this online.' Having that type of granular control is very nice.

The reporting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is a little easier than most Microsoft portals. I understand the licensing cost, especially if you're a Business Premium or in the SMB world, and a lot of clients run with a Business Premium. That comes with data loss prevention in a manual process, whereas E5 gives automation. Microsoft has said, 'Okay, here's your Microsoft 365 E5 compliance add-on that can go on the Business Premium.' So Business Premium users can get the data loss prevention features of E5, which is fantastic. That was the big point that they were missing, and I'm glad that they actually have an add-on now that makes it possible. So truly, I don't think there's a downside. Maybe more reporting, but that's it.

I've been working in the current field for 11 years.

The stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is great. Besides the weird timeframe where it takes a couple hours for a rule to sync and 24 hours to appear for someone, I don't really have an issue.

I have never used the customer service for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, at least not yet. I've had it in other 365 tenants and I've never had an issue.

Negative

I haven't considered anything else for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. We do have email filtering through Avanon, and Avanon does have DLP, but it uses the labels within Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. So it still uses Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to say, 'Hey, this email still needs to be encrypted if it's going out.' Besides that, we haven't had a reason to use another product.

I hope most of it is innocent, and I can say that 90 percent of it is or more than 99 percent of it is. That 1 percent though is concerning. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention will learn the system and then it will flag everything.

The pricing for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is good. When thinking about it, automation is what you're paying for. Your current licensing gives the free built-in, but having that above and beyond with the machine learning, you have to pay for it. When people see the E5 cost, they back off and say, 'That's way too expensive.' Microsoft doing the E5 compliance add-on gives someone the ability to say, 'Look, you don't have to be afraid of this feature. A little bit of extra money and it makes all your data secure.' A lot more clients are willing to pay for that than go for the full E5 at 56 dollars or whatever. I would rate this solution a 9 out of 10.

My main use case involves adhering to records retention requirements and making sure we keep our data.

The rules that we abide by have different data classification requirements, and we want to make sure that we get the right information in the right buckets. We use Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to do that, and we are extensively using the data classification tags and what DLP can do for us in that space.

My favorite feature is tagging, absolutely, hands down. Tagging is amazing because it helps our users see where to sort the data and where it needs to go. The second most important thing is the general filters that you can use that do detection for pattern matching for social security numbers. We can also classify and make some of our own classifications because we have student ID numbers that we want to keep inside, so we value that.

The benefits really center around making things as simple as possible because the population that we serve in regards to using this product is mostly faculty and staff. We want to make sure it's straightforward and very easy to use with minimal thinking required, allowing us to set everything up so that they can use it. This approach works really well.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has absolutely helped improve my organization's ability to manage data because we use M365 for the majority of our knowledge worker storage, and that's where people's data lives. It's really helpful to have one place, and Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention helps us identify that one place where the data is. It works really effectively.

I would appreciate anything that improves the speed at which we can implement the things that we need in the next generation. More guides, more examples, and more compliance frameworks such as NIST or even PCI compliance would be great. Anything that you can add to the product that makes it easier for us to implement is where I want to see that improved.

We have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for five years.

I assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as quite good because I don't think it's ever gone down, unlike other parts of Azure. When you do a big extraction of data, it is going to take some time. I think the time it takes is appropriate for the level of data that we're asking it to pull, as the duration is expected because we have compliance requirements both for public records requests, which tend to be exhaustive and poorly formed.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales effectively. It works well, and whether we have ten thousand or twenty thousand users, it functions the same.

We are currently engaged with Unified Support, which is Microsoft's support environment, to help us with this pilot. It's been fine, and I would give it a seven out of ten.

Before we had Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we had no DLP. We had an idealized notion that we should do this, but now we actually have some DLP. It's been a game-changer because other institutions use paid products that are outside the M365 suite, making it very difficult for them to implement. These solutions are very costly, whereas Microsoft has done an excellent job of bundling it in as a valuable component.

Regarding the experience deploying Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we have it in a small pilot right now with about fifty users. Because it's an academic institution, we got really excited about the level of granularity we could implement, but that granularity overwhelmed our users. The feedback we got initially was to make it simpler. That feedback was our fault, not Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's or the product's fault, but it was helpful feedback.

Regarding the return on investment, we had nothing before, and now we have something. It's bundled in what we already were paying for, so it's really important.

In terms of pricing, I would say it's unlimited value because it's bundled in our A5 and E5 licensing situation. Over time, it just became more readily available to us in general, so again, it's worth it. This is part of the larger brand strategy of what a level five license gives you; it gives many things that are really valuable because you're able to redirect requests for other features in other pieces of software.

Upper-level people did consider another software solution, but by the time they got closer to actually implementing it, we already had Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. It was a natural deflection.

I would assess the ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of data as very good. It works very effectively. We've demoed it, and we've done comprehensive documentation that has one test case, and it catches it, so it's really effective.

The classification and policy control impact users' productivity in my organization because we're asking them to do it now, and they've never done it before. There's a small impact, but I think it's worth it as it's a nuanced consideration. Because we're able to manage and set it up for people to use, we minimize the amount of productivity loss that we experience having to do it.

Overall, I would rate Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention an eight out of ten, as there are many things that get bundled in E5 that are worth more than just the individual part, but Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has been consistently good.

My main use case for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to protect sensitive business and customer data across the Office 365 services, including Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. I use the DLP policy to identify sensitive information such as financial reports and personal identification, and prevent unauthorized sharing, emailing, downloading, or copying of the data.

The best features Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention offers are sensitive data detection, endpoint DLP, Office 365 integration, real-time policy enforcement, and centralized management. It helps to prevent data leaks while maintaining compliance.

Real-time policy enforcement helps my team by automatically stopping risky actions as they happen, without requiring manual monitoring. For example, if a user tries to email a spreadsheet containing customer account details to an external recipient, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention immediately detects the sensitive data and stops the email or displays a warning. This reduces the risk of accidental data leaks and saves the security team time by preventing incidents before they happen.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has significantly improved our data security posture by reducing the risk of accidental data leaks and helping to meet compliance requirements. It has provided better visibility into how sensitive data is used and shared across the organization. The automated policy enforcement reduces the manual monitoring effort, allowing the security team to focus on higher priority tasks.

Since implementing Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I have seen a noticeable reduction in accidental data sharing incidents and improved compliance audit readiness. The automated policy enforcement has also reduced the time spent on manual monitoring and investigation, allowing the security team to respond more efficiently to potential threats.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention could be improved with simpler policy configuration, a more robust reporting dashboard, and better support for third-party applications outside the Microsoft ecosystem. Reducing the false positives and providing more granular policy tuning options would also help to improve the overall user and administrator experience.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for more than three years.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is stable in my experience.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is highly scalable and has been able to grow with my organization. It supports and protects across thousands of users, multiple locations, cloud services, and endpoint devices without requiring significant infrastructure changes. The cloud-based architecture and central policy management make it easy to expand coverage as my organization grows.

Customer support for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is good.

Before selecting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I evaluated solutions such as Symantec Data Loss Prevention, Forcepoint, and Netskope. I ultimately chose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention due to its seamless integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, centralized management capabilities, and overall value within our existing infrastructure.

I have seen a positive ROI with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. The automated policy enforcement and monitoring have reduced the time spent on manual compliance checks and incident investigation. I have also seen fewer accidental data sharing incidents, improved audit readiness, and increased the efficiency of the security team without needing additional headcount.

The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is generally positive. Since it generally comes with Office 365, the setup cost is relatively low compared to deploying a separate DLP solution. However, some advanced features may require a higher-tier license, such as Microsoft 365 E5, which can increase the cost for larger deployments. Overall, I find the solution very good and valuable considering its security, compliance, and integration capabilities.

My advice to others looking into using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to start with a small set of DLP policies. Fine-tune them to reduce false positives, then gradually increase the enforcement. Additionally, take advantage of the Microsoft 365 integration to ensure user-friendly notifications and compliance with requirements.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is deployed in my organization as a hybrid cloud environment. I use Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 as the cloud provider for our hybrid cloud deployment.

In one instance, an employee accidentally attempted to share a file containing customer records with an external recipient. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention identified the sensitive content and blocked the action, preventing a potential data leak. This helps maintain the company's compliance. I would rate this product an 8 overall.

My main use case for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is preventing company data from accidentally being exfiltrated.

The features of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention that I appreciate the most include data loss prevention, setting guardrails, notifying users, and seeking approval.

Microsoft Purview's classification and policy controls impact users' productivity within my organization very positively, as it does not get in the way of their working. I think it is very unobtrusive.

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

In terms of discovering sensitive data, it helps with credit card information, especially since we are a financial services business. Any PII information that might be exposed in emails is valuable to know about.

If there are additional features I would like to be included in the next release of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I would say that Copilot AI integration would be beneficial so that any agents are not oversharing or sharing internal data to external bots.

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

I would assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as rock solid so far. We have not had to babysit it or make sure it is doing its job, and we have been really impressed with it.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues on my monitoring system.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales really well with the growing needs of my organization. It is a managed service, so it does what it needs to do behind the scenes, and it is a set and forget sort of thing for us.

We are expanding usage of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention now by adding more policies and bringing more sites under DLP, so the rollout is in progress.

I evaluate customer service and technical support as really straightforward, as I have not had to raise a service request for it.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support as a high ten.

I rate it a ten because they are very quick to respond and very quick to escalate if needed.

Positive

Prior to adopting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I was not using another solution to address similar needs, as we were cloud-first and were born in the cloud, so we have always used it.

I would describe my experience with deploying Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as really simple and straightforward.

Deployment-wise, it was straightforward. However, the challenge was probably going from audit to live, and user communication was essential, as many people were not familiar with having guardrails set. We used a case from our internal policy SharePoint site where some users had actually attempted to email out our internal policies, and they were quickly reminded they could not do that.

In terms of experience with the deployment, it was straightforward. We evaluated data locations, including SharePoint sites and Teams sites that contained internal, sensitive data which could not be shared, and we targeted that in our policies to ensure that if anyone tried to share something, they would be blocked from doing so.

At this time, I have not seen a return on investment with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. However, I would imagine that any data leakage would be significant because we are a highly regulated company. If there was a breach, we would be fined heavily, so the fact that we are not being fined is crucial.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is very straightforward because we are all using E5 licenses, so we are covered.

We did not consider other solutions before selecting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. We went straight for it in a single shot.

The reason I find Microsoft Purview's ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information very good is that not every user is as security mindful as we would prefer them to be. Putting guardrails around their working to prevent oversharing of possibly sensitive data is a good thing.

What stood out to us that made us choose Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention was keeping it all in the same Microsoft ecosystem, which I think was the main driver for it, as our technical team was familiar with it.

My advice to other organizations considering Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to seriously consider it, as many people are in the Microsoft ecosystem in one shape or form. It would make sense to keep that particular service because it is so embedded into the Microsoft ecosystem, so I would certainly put it high on the list.

I would rate this product a nine out of ten.

My usual use case for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to configure it to ensure that we don't lose data accidentally and that all users are protected. Aside from being an end user, I also help configure Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to our policies and requirements. Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is able to prevent accidental sharing of card data. We've configured a lot and done extensive configurations to block accidental card data sharing. We've provided a number of keywords such that when it picks any of these keywords, users are not able to share this outside the organization. For us, it works perfectly. We're still working with Microsoft to fine-tune some configurations, but so far so good.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention provides a significant impact on our productivity within our organization. We use it for policy attestation as well, where we share policies for users to read, acknowledge, and attest to. So it impacts us significantly.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention prevents users from sharing sensitive information outside the organization based on the configurations that we've implemented. It prevents any leak or accidental leak of very sensitive information that we have classified. We have a number of classification schemes within the organization, and anything that is not meant to go outside the organization doesn't go outside.

We are now utilizing the machine learning driven analysis offered by Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, which we're doing a simulation on currently.

In terms of impact on our data classification process, based on the classification schemes that we have, we've created our labels within Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention such that any data that we create by default is labeled internal use only, unless it's meant for outside, confidential, or very sensitive. The machine learning built in classifies it by default as internal use only to prevent accidental leakage, so it impacts us positively. It works well for us.

I'm okay with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Perhaps with the advent of AI, it can be enhanced, especially with organizations that handle and process huge amounts of data. If it's able to drill down and analyze various sensitive information, the AI can help.

We've been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for a minimum of five years, and more than five years, actually.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is stable and reliable for us. It's doing what we have configured it to do, and we review the output every now and then to see if it's effectively doing what we want it to do. We're satisfied with its performance.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales well with the growing needs of our organization. We subscribed to Microsoft because of the huge nature of the data that we deal with. It is scalable enough to handle the growing needs of our company, and so far, no issues.

We've communicated with the technical support of Microsoft for this product. They were very helpful. Recently, we contacted them to help fine-tune some of the configurations within Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, which they have done. In terms of support, it's top-notch and always available to help us with any support issues we raise.

Positive

Before Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we were using other proprietary tools to address similar needs.

I wasn't available for the initial setup and deployment of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, as I joined later.

I have seen a return on investment with this solution, and it is a priority for me. In these days of data breaches and data leakages that result in huge regulatory fines, we have not had any data breaches that could result in such fines. For us, return on investment with this solution is acceptable. We're satisfied.

The pricing of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is acceptable for us.

We evaluated quite a number of other vendors before selecting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Based on proof of concept evaluations that we conducted, we noted that Microsoft was the best solution for us. We settled on that.

I would like to remain anonymous as these reviews are published on the internet. My overall rating for this solution is eight out of ten.

Our main use cases for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention are to classify confidential documents, including our company secret, company confidential, private confidential, users' private data, HR data, financial data, and our IT own data.

When we utilize Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, it benefits our organization, especially when sending and receiving attachments labeled as confidential. It is quite helpful for executives to confidently send emails knowing that the message will not be forwarded, printed, or shared. That trust is pretty helpful for us in IT, and also in OneDrive and SharePoint, wherever users find documents that have sensitive data. We can ensure that a wrong user opening up will not happen, and we can stay confident that nobody is going to open it.

I appreciate the new feature of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention where Copilot automatically classifies documents in SharePoint, OneDrive, and everywhere with personally identifiable information data, and I would like to see that automatic feature in action.

Microsoft Purview has helped improve our organization's ability to discover sensitive data significantly as we use eDiscovery Purview, which is incredibly helpful.

The automatic tagging feature of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is an incredible feature that I saw as a big improvement. I think that making the rules, eDiscovery, and policy rules a little bit easier for first-time users would be terrific.

Regarding Microsoft Purview's classification and policy controls, while I'm not sure about productivity, it has been incredibly helpful for legal, HR, and finance by ensuring that all documents are labeled correctly so nothing is viewed or shared by anyone else, preventing any information from being leaked to the press or anything else. I wouldn't call it productivity, but it's definitely helpful for our company.

I do not currently utilize the machine learning-driven analysis offered by Microsoft Purview, but I am interested in using it after seeing the Copilot automated feature.

I assess Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information positively because we have opened up our SharePoint and some Teams to our partners and customers. We have created policies saying what can be shared with customers when we're communicating in Teams or sharing files. Data classification helps because before a user tries to share, it shows them they cannot share because it contains this information, and the user is happy they have not shared the wrong information.

The challenge with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention involves finding documents, emails, and OneNote with sensitive data. Finding and labeling it is a manual process today, and it is quite messy.

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

I would assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as being flaky at times, where eDiscovery sometimes takes forever or doesn't bring the results we expect. While we use it to delete some emails, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention's eDiscovery sometimes says it deleted them, but we're still finding the emails, so that presents some problems.

I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues, though there is some slowness.

I believe that Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales well with the growing needs of our organization.

While we have expanded usage, it wasn't smooth, as we are mixing and matching our own DLP product with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, and deciding which features of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention we wanted to use and which ones we want to use from our own DLP was a challenging process, but we figured it out.

I evaluate customer service and technical support for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as fantastic. Online documentation is pretty good, Copilot is helpful sometimes, and I have never had a problem with support.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate customer service and technical support an eight because most of the time, we did find an answer through support, but there were instances when support did not respond.

Positive

Prior to adopting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, I was using another solution to address similar needs.

I was using a product made by a company called Datena for DLP, and for email, we have our own DLP, which is Proofpoint, and that's what we still use.

In terms of deployment, there is nothing to deploy with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention because it already has access to SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, and email. We just configured it, tested it, and started using it.

I would describe my experience with deploying Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as being in the planning stage of rolling out DLP with our own product along with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. If Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has a better feature, we're going to end up using that.

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

We save a lot of time for legal by using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention when searching data for legal and HR and employee issues. That is incredibly time-saving since it used to take a lot of time searching for different data across Teams, SharePoint, and email, and now it's all in one place.

We did not consider any other solutions before selecting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

In my evaluation process regarding Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, nothing stood out to me, mainly because we are a big Microsoft customer, using the entire email, Azure, and all infrastructure, so Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention being right there made it a logical choice for us.

My advice for other organizations considering Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is to use it a lot and try to understand Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention from their point of view. Understanding how to create policies, rules, and eDiscovery rules first before you start creating your own rules is important. I would rate this review a six overall.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is used for protecting enterprise data from end users' exfiltration, and preventing data from going out the wrong way.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention protects the organization from user data getting out that should not be out. It works very well when assessing the ability to prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information with the organization. The point is that data going in and out does not go where it shouldn't go.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention has helped improve the organization's ability to discover sensitive data. It allows us to identify data we did not know was being used or shared, and it enables us to create tagging and information categorization of data that we were not previously aware we needed to address.

The automation features are what I like the most about Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. These are features that we set and configure, and then they just work.

More real-world examples or workflows presented would be beneficial. When you don't know what you can do, then you don't know what you're missing.

I have been using Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for a long time, since its inception when it was in Exchange.

I would assess the stability and reliability of Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention as high. I have not experienced any downtime, crashes, or performance issues.

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention scales well with the growing needs of the organization. I have definitely expanded usage.

The customer service and technical support are good. I would rate the customer service and technical support at a six or seven on a scale from one being the worst to ten being the best. Response times are slow when you need things. Working through the process of trying to reach somebody that can actually answer your question is why I gave a six.

Positive

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

As more information gets centralized in one place, the boundaries grow and get better coverage and user experience with centralizing the DLP program with Microsoft Purview. This has not been negative overall; it is a positive thing.

The major challenge we had was overreach. When our initial design inception blocked more data than we expected, we had a lot of help desk related issues that we did not see in testing. Once we were rolling things out, things got a little messy.

The deployment went okay. It was rocky at the beginning when figuring out the overreach issues, and then once we understood what we were getting into, everything worked well.

There is not a hard ROI, but we have definitely achieved a return on investment with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention in a soft, conceptual sense.

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing has been more focused on giving consultative direction and recommendations rather than direct payment experience.

There were no other solutions to consider when selecting Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

Make sure you know how you're implementing Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention and what you're trying to block or prevent, and then take it in small chunks. Do not try to boil the ocean. I would rate this review an 8 out of 10.

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.

Positive

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.