We performed a comparison between Azure Key Vault and Microsoft Purview Data Governance based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Microsoft Security Suite solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There is advanced data protection available. We're working in a highly regulated environment, and this is essential to us."
"Technical support is helpful."
"It stores sensitive information in an encrypted way. We don't have to worry about data loss or data theft because no one can see our information."
"The centralized storage and secure storage are features we like."
"The access policy feature helps secure content and resources."
"The platform provides straightforward integration with most of the other Azure services."
"I am satisfied with the product overall."
"The most valuable features are ease of use and enabling our clients to manage keys."
"MIP also provides strong information rights management settings, such as the ability to specify who has access to content and at what time."
"My favorite features are eDiscovery and insider risk management, because these are the major threats to an organization that can't be easily traced."
"The availability of pre-designed policies tailored to specific geolocations and customer requirements is a valuable feature."
"The time to onboard is pretty short."
"Data segregation is the most valuable feature."
"It gives you the opportunity to know your data and apply policies around it. If those policies are flouted, you can always track what's happening. You have options such as alerting the person who is committing that action, or you can take automatic action by blocking, for example, an email that is been sent externally. It's very useful."
"It is designed to seamlessly connect to various data sources, which is particularly beneficial for our customers who primarily use Microsoft technologies."
"The data classification part of the solution is excellent, especially as it gives us an insight into our sensitive data within Microsoft 365."
"The solution does not allow you to integrate with XML parties if it is not inside Azure itself."
"It is complicated to use different services and products along with Azure Key Vault."
"Azure Key Vault takes time to fetch values while integrating it with the code written in .NET format."
"If multiple clouds are to be used it can be difficult and a third party should assist in the implementation."
"If the region where the Azure Key Vault data center is hosted goes down, it would be a cumbersome task since our company will have to come up with a different Azure Key Vault and migrate all the secrets or keys into it."
"While it's very reliable in terms of stability, there's always room for improvement."
"There's room for improvement in cross-platform compatibility."
"One of my previous clients was one of the big banks here in the Netherlands and the EU courts have stated that Microsoft Azure Key Vault is not, according to their perspective, secure due to the fact that Microsoft has access to Key Vault."
"It could reduce pricing to encourage usage."
"We have had a lot of issues since we moved to Unified Support. There have been work gaps there, and we believe they fixed them, but we need to make sure that they are going to be sustainable. It is to be seen."
"There are differences when looking at an incident in the M365 portal versus Purview, and the main one is the advanced hunting. In the M365 portal, you can write KQL queries and fetch data. If that was available in Purview, it would be very good."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to Purview's data connector platform in supporting ingestion from non-Microsoft data sources."
"Enhancing the tool's capability to connect to multiple sources would be valuable."
"The overall cost of deploying this solution could be better. It seems that middle and small-sized organizations are not completely happy with deploying this solution in terms of the cost. It would be good if they concentrate on the cost part."
"Blueprints and landing zones like we have in Azure would be great to see in Purview. The solution could offer a baseline or blueprint of recommended settings for compliance regulations such as GDPR and ISO, which could be applied with a simple switch in the options."
"We've had a few issues with the scanner. It runs perfectly one day, and on another day, it will run the whole night. It's probably related to the rules. If I set some compliance rules and apply the rules to any column, I can't delete it. I have to disable it and reactivate it."
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Azure Key Vault is ranked 11th in Microsoft Security Suite with 46 reviews while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is ranked 7th in Microsoft Security Suite with 48 reviews. Azure Key Vault is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Purview Data Governance is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Azure Key Vault writes "Allows us to securely store our keys to prevent unauthorized access to unwanted users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Purview Data Governance writes "User friendly with good documentation but needs to cover more non-Microsoft use cases". Azure Key Vault is most compared with AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, AWS Certificate Manager and Delinea Secret Server, whereas Microsoft Purview Data Governance is most compared with Collibra Governance, Alation Data Catalog, Varonis Platform, Informatica Axon and Microsoft Intune. See our Azure Key Vault vs. Microsoft Purview Data Governance report.
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