All news with #microsoft purview tag

🔍 Microsoft outlines a structured approach to investigate AI interactions across Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services, emphasizing telemetry from Purview, Defender, and Sentinel. The new investigator playbook follows a scope–context–signal methodology to identify who interacted with AI systems, what resources were accessed, and when events occurred. It operationalizes detection logic, KQL queries, and schema references to help response teams build coherent investigative narratives and assess impact.

🧭 Microsoft is piloting agentic AI in Edge for Business to streamline multi-step workflows like form-filling, site navigation, and cross-tab data gathering. A limited preview introduces a unified new-tab experience with calendar entries, files, and Copilot prompts to reduce context-switching. Enterprises can enforce data protections—blocking copy/paste, keeping prompts and responses inside their Microsoft 365 tenant, and auditing or blocking sensitive uploads. The features integrate with Purview to detect and prevent policy violations when users sign into Edge for Business.

🔒 Microsoft announced a set of security enhancements designed to protect agents, data, and identities as organizations scale AI. Highlights include the general availability of Microsoft Purview DSPM, expanded investigation capabilities with OCR and custom examinations, and a new Entra ID Account recovery flow for restoring organizational access. Public preview of Windows 365 for Agents and integration with Microsoft Agent 365 aim to govern and secure agent workloads in managed Cloud PCs.

🔒 Microsoft previewed new Microsoft Defender capabilities within the Agent 365 tooling gateway to give security teams near real-time visibility and control over agentic workflows, using webhook-based evaluation to detect, block, and investigate anomalous agent actions before execution. Separately, Microsoft Defender for Cloud now integrates with GitHub Advanced Security generally available to map code changes to production, prioritize alerts using runtime context, and enable coordinated remediation. A hands-on Microsoft Purview demo demonstrates AI-powered data security investigations across the data estate.

🔒 Microsoft announced new Purview innovations for Fabric to help organizations discover sensitive data risks, prevent oversharing, and improve governance and data quality across their data estate. Updates include general availability of DLP policies for Fabric Warehouses and KQL/SQL DBs, Insider Risk Management for lakehouses, and preview capabilities for Copilots and Agents. The Unified Catalog also gains publication workflows and data quality checks for ungoverned assets to better prepare trusted data for AI.

🔒 Microsoft is extending Purview data loss prevention controls so the Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant cannot read or process sensitive Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files regardless of where they are stored. The change leverages the Office Augmentation Loop (AugLoop) component so Office clients can supply sensitivity labels for local files as well as for SharePoint and OneDrive. Microsoft will roll out the update between late March and late April 2026 and says it will be automatically enabled for tenants with DLP policies configured to block Copilot. The move follows a January bug that briefly allowed Copilot Chat to access and summarize protected emails.

🔒 The 2026 Microsoft Data Security Index explores how organizations can harness generative AI while protecting sensitive information and maintaining productivity. Based on responses from more than 1,700 security leaders, the report highlights three priorities: consolidating fragmented tools into unified platforms, managing AI-driven workflows securely, and leveraging generative AI to strengthen security operations. It recommends practical approaches using Microsoft Purview for continuous discovery and governance and Microsoft Security Copilot for automated investigation with human oversight.

🔒 The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Microsoft found that Microsoft Purview reduced the likelihood of data breaches by 30% for a composite organization, yielding more than $225,000 in annual savings from avoided incidents and fines. The report credits unified governance, automated classification, and fine‑tuned DLP policies with a 75% reduction in investigation time and 75% time savings for users searching and classifying data. Over three years the study shows $3.0M in benefits versus $633,000 in costs (NPV $2.3M; ROI 355%).