Essays & field notes
Purview tells you about your data.
Who tells you about Purview?
Notes on information protection and compliance in Microsoft 365 — how the controls are built, how they quietly stop working, and what evidence an auditor will actually accept.
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Microsoft Purview guards your data. Who guards your Purview?
A DLP rule switched off. A label's permissions widened. A threshold moved from 10 to 15. Nothing alerts you — and the audit log never says what the value used to be.
Start with a decision, not the technology. If you can say, today, “this is our approved Purview configuration, and this is who signed it off” — you have a baseline.