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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 Insider Risk Management's scoring mechanism is exceptional, eliminating the need to reinvent criteria for identifying risks, misconfigurations, or vulnerabilities.
Insider Risk Management's specific graphing allows users to view the last six months of data and filter alerts for devices, emails, etc., making it easy to find necessary information.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management aids in performing investigations after receiving alerts, demonstrated by its ability to notify organizations of security breaches, such as identifying foreign actors within the company.
Purview integrates seamlessly with existing environments, such as Active Directory and Microsoft Office applications, easing the integration process compared to third-party vendors.
Purview allows for management through a single portal, simplifying tasks and processes, thus saving time, reducing costs, and streamlining operations.

CONS

Pricing is considered very expensive and the Business Premium offering should be extended to enterprise customers.
Reporting capabilities could be improved for producing information for the C-suite.
Deployment was challenging in diverse networks not entirely using Microsoft products.
Agent installation is necessary for certain tasks, which adds complexity and extra work for IT departments.
Initial setup for Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is complex.
 

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Pros review quotes

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.
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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Pavan Sudhakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Jul 16, 2026
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management provides key benefits for me. The solution saves my time, saves my money, and streamlines some processes.
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.
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.
 

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management Cons review quotes

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.
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: July 2026.
908,834 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Pavan Sudhakar - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Jul 16, 2026
The initial setup for Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is a complex setup process.
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.
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.