Security, Compliance, and Identity

New! Evaluating Digital Sovereignty Options   March 16, 2026 Digital sovereignty is increasingly important as enterprises face shifting legal and geopolitical environments. Microsoft has...more Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: March 6, 2026 Copilot is an umbrella brand applied to a range of Microsoft technologies, most of which...more Purview Adaptive Scopes Ease Policy Management March 5, 2026 Purview adaptive scopes offer flexibility for administrators responsible for defining retention policies and communication compliance...more Six Steps from On-Premises to Full Cloud March 2, 2026 The move from on-premises Active Directory to the Microsoft-hosted Entra ID infrastructure is a gradual...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 An increasing set of Purview services, primarily for use with non-Microsoft data, require the use...more Intune Premium License Tiers Still Not Worth It Updated: December 23, 2025 Two premium Intune tiers are now available, along with multiple à la carte features. Intune...more Understanding Purview Data Governance December 15, 2025 Purview Data Governance is intended to help discover, curate, manage, and control access to data,...more Windows Quick Machine Recovery Could Alleviate Future CrowdStrike-Style Outages December 15, 2025 Windows Quick Machine Recovery, a new feature of Windows 11 intended to help recover otherwise...more Security Copilot: Expanding and Expensive Updated: December 7, 2025 Security Copilot can help admins using Microsoft 365 management tools to perform security-related tasks faster....more Understanding Entra ID Privileged Identity Management Updated: November 22, 2025 Entra ID Privileged Identity Management can help organizations manage and audit the risk posed by...more Defender for Cloud Apps Helps Protect Copilot Studio Agents November 13, 2025 Advanced real-time protection for Copilot Studio, a new Defender for Cloud Apps feature, offers an...more Defender for Identity Improves Delegation with Scoped Access October 31, 2025 Scoped access, a new Defender feature, offers the ability to constrain which Active Directory domains...more Entra ID Protects Key Identities with Restricted Management October 31, 2025 Restricted management administrative units can help organizations improve security and compliance while enhancing logging and auditing. Organizations...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 Understanding Dynamic Membership for Entra ID Groups Updated: October 19, 2025 Entra ID supports dynamic membership for users and devices in some types of groups. The...more

Chart of Microsoft Purview Pay-as-you-go Services February 16, 2026 Microsoft Defender for Servers Plans Updated: January 6, 2025

  Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a service that offers endpoint protection features including antimalware on...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Microsoft Defender for Office 365 offers two tiers of service that help prevent and assess...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Identity Microsoft Defender for Identity is a Microsoft-hosted service that captures, parses, and analyzes Active Directory...more   Product Reference Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Microsoft-hosted service designed to help organizations discover the...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 Entra ID Entra ID is a multitenant identity and access management (IAM) service hosted by Microsoft. The...more   Product Reference Intune Intune is a Microsoft-hosted service that provides mobile device management (MDM) and application management for...more   Licensing Reference Entra ID An online service that provides identity and access management for Microsoft-hosted services such as Microsoft...more   Product Reference Microsoft 365 Groups  Updated with new services supported by M365 groups   Product Reference Advanced Threat Analytics Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) was a Windows Server-based security application that can help to identify...more   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 Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft’s hosted security information and event management (SIEM) service, designed to help...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 Exchange Online Protection Exchange Online Protection (EOP) is a security gateway cloud service for filtering e-mail.

Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management Roadmap

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