Name: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention
Rating: 4.3 (61 reviews)

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Updated 14th October 2025

What is Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention?

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is a software that helps organizations identify, monitor, and protect sensitive information across various platforms including email, endpoints, and cloud applications. The software enables the creation and enforcement of policies to restrict unauthorized sharing or transmission of confidential data, supporting compliance with data protection regulations. Features include automated detection of sensitive content, real-time alerts and reporting, as well as tools to educate users about data handling risks. The software addresses business challenges related to data security and regulatory compliance by reducing the likelihood of accidental or intentional data leaks.

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It Security & Risk Management Associate

500M - 1B USD, Insurance (except health)

FAVORABLE

“Consistent Data Protection Achieved Amid Challenges in Endpoint Policy Deployment Speed”

4.0

Feb 2, 2026

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IT Security & Risk Management Associate

10B - 30B USD, Telecommunication

CRITICAL

“Average product plus bad support raise concerns about Microsoft Purview reliability”

3.0

Apr 2, 2026

About Company

Company Description

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1975

Head office location

Redmond, Washington, United States

Number of employees

10000+

Annual Revenue

30B+ USD

Website

https://microsoft.com

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One of the biggest strengths of the solution is its deep integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, which allows data protection rules to be applied consistently across multiple collaboration channels.

Lack of consistent design principles, bad support, lack of basic features.

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10B+ USD

Telecommunication

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Average product plus bad support raise concerns about Microsoft Purview reliability

Microsoft Purview DLP looks very much like a solution still in development, with lots of basic functionality you would be expecting missing (e.g. simple use case - blocking upload of any file to a certain site cannot be achieved), some that are half delivered (e.g. blocking of applications is done completely on any data they access, instead of blocking just outbound traffic) and some features that are indeed in place. Microsoft Purview DLP doesn't seem to have been consistently designed with sound principles being pushed consistently across the board, rather it seems to have been slapped together from pieces, where those pieces don't look or work the same (e.g. when it comes to scoping policies to large organizations, scope might be dynamic and the tool simply doesn't support dynamic groups across all its workloads). Sometimes you can come across an issue that makes no sense at all (e.g. you have a OneDrive policy that blocks access to files and then it generates absolutely no alerts) and Microsoft loves to give answers on everything that's not there or plain out wrong that "it's by design". This highlights the fact that on top of Purview DLP's current development status, Microsoft has adopted a support model that is neither flexible nor timely, even in critical cases were the customer is articulating significant business impact (e.g. if you get a modification you require accepted by the Microsoft DLP product group, it can sit in a development hell limbo with no predicted release date for it, even for years). Last but not least, Microsoft's official documentation on the product is also not always up-to-date or detailed enough to help prepare you on all angles that you need to consider before implementing something. The overall experience is that this is a tool that's not functioning on good principles that are pushed across the board, but rather by exceptions, hence the learning curve is quite steep and you should always brace yourself that upon the next use case you're trying to implement there is a good chance you'll hit a "catch" that will ruin your best planning or most logical assumptions.

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Overall experience with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention

“Consistent Data Protection Achieved Amid Challenges in Endpoint Policy Deployment Speed”

“Average product plus bad support raise concerns about Microsoft Purview reliability”

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Average product plus bad support raise concerns about Microsoft Purview reliability

Average product plus bad support raise concerns about Microsoft Purview reliability

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4.3

(61 Ratings)

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