Compliance

Microsoft Investing Little on AI in Its Own Management Services October 4, 2026 Although Microsoft promotes AI, including upsells in the form of Copilots, Azure AI, and the...more Agent 365 for GCC Is Available, but It Has Security, Compliance, and Other Gaps October 2, 2026 Microsoft 365 G7 mirrors E7 by adding Agent 365, which brings agent governance, observability, and...more Microsoft 365 G7 Government Suite: A Release in Progress September 25, 2026 The initial release of Microsoft 365 G7, the equivalent of Microsoft 365 E7 but licensed...more Microsoft 365 AI Governance Features: A Dog’s Breakfast September 14, 2026 Aspects of AI governance are addressed by many features across Microsoft 365’s compliance, identity, security,...more Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: September 4, 2026 Microsoft’s range of Copilots, initially broad and confusing, is narrowing, but remains convoluted. Copilots, like...more DLP Cut from Defender for Cloud Apps – Customers Must Move to Purview DLP July 16, 2026 Microsoft is retiring a range of data loss prevention features available in Microsoft Defender for...more Entra Cloud Sync Replacing Connect Sync: What to Expect June 27, 2026 Customers should begin transitioning now from Connect Sync to Cloud Sync, but larger customers won’t...more Enterprise Agents at Scale: Control Improves, Costs Follow June 26, 2026 Enterprise AI agents represent an operating model shift, with implications for governance, costs, and accountability....more Azure Lockbox Helps Customers Control Data Access by Microsoft April 13, 2026 Customer Lockbox for Azure (formally Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Azure) is a free feature that...more Evaluating Digital Sovereignty Options   March 16, 2026 Enterprises are increasingly using the public cloud for mission-critical and data-sensitive workloads. But as customers...more Purview Adaptive Scopes Ease Policy Management March 5, 2026 Purview adaptive scopes use queries to define a collection of users, groups, and SharePoint sites...more Best Practices for Preserving Data While Removing Microsoft 365 Users Updated: February 23, 2026 Offboarding employees is not an IT task; it’s a governance and risk event affecting organizational...more When Is Purview Pay-as-You-Go? February 16, 2026 Purview offers an increasing number of PAYG services. Almost all of these services are PAYG...more Understanding Purview Data Governance December 15, 2025 Purview Data Governance is intended to help discover, curate, manage, and control access to data,...more Dynamics 365 License Compliance Enforcement Delayed to at Least Jan. 2026 October 20, 2025 Microsoft has delayed plans to lock the Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations front door from...more Sentinel Enables AI Agents with MCP Server Preview October 19, 2025 A new MCP server is available for Microsoft Sentinel, the company’s SIEM, supporting natural language...more

Chart of Microsoft Purview Pay-as-you-go Services February 16, 2026

  Product Reference Azure Government Azure Government delivers Azure cloud services with isolation, security, and standards certification that aren’t offered...more   Licensing Reference Azure Information Protection A license SKU discontinued in 2020 that covered a set of data classification, sensitivity labeling,...more   Product Reference Purview Information Protection and Governance Purview Information Protection & Governance is a collection of Microsoft cloud services intended to help...more   Product Reference Purview eDiscovery & Audit Purview eDiscovery & Audit is a collection of Microsoft cloud services intended to help organizations...more   Product Reference Purview Insider Risk Management Purview Insider Risk Management helps ensure employee activity remains compliant with existing regulations and policies.   Product Reference Purview Data Governance and Security Purview Data Governance and Purview Data Security, members of the Microsoft Purview family of compliance...more   Product Reference Purview Message Encryption Microsoft Purview Message Encryption is a Microsoft-hosted service that encrypts e-mail messages, providing end-to-end, persistent...more   Product Reference Data Catalog Azure Data Catalog was Microsoft’s first centralized, hosted registry of enterprise data sources.   Licensing Reference eDiscovery A capability that allows authorized personnel to collect, hold, and review user-authored content in response...more   Licensing Reference Data Loss Prevention A compliance feature built into and licensed as part of various online services and on-premises...more

Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management Roadmap

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