New Priva Features Bolster Enterprise Privacy Compliance

• New features in Priva, a Microsoft 365 add-on, will further assist legal and compliance teams with privacy compliance tasks.
• They address specific shortcomings and that could help organizations meet global privacy requirements like GDPR and others.
• Deploying these new features may require organizations to implement and deploy other prerequisite services with additional cost.
• Customers should evaluate the preview features to determine if third-party solutions are needed to augment Priva.

Microsoft Priva, first introduced in 2021, focuses on helping organizations satisfy their privacy obligations and protect individuals’ personal information. They must protect personal data, but organizations must be able to prove, through reporting, that they do so, as the penalties can be draconian. Since the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Commission in 2018 and similar legislation in other countries and jurisdictions afterwards, the protection of customer