Uncover Data Risk w/ Copilot & Purview
Data risks can be difficult to track as AI scales across your environment. This short video shows how Microsoft Security Copilot, embedded in Microsoft Purview, helps security teams identify and manage risks more effectively. Watch the video to understand how to strengthen visibility and control across your data estate.
What is Copilot in Microsoft Purview?
Copilot in Microsoft Purview is an AI-assisted capability designed to help you uncover and understand data risk across your organization. It works within the Microsoft Security and compliance ecosystem to scan, classify, and surface insights about your data so you can see where sensitive information lives, how it’s being used, and where potential risks may exist.
Instead of manually digging through reports or running complex queries, you can use natural language prompts to:
- Identify locations of sensitive data
- Review potential policy violations
- Get summaries of risk trends over time
This helps teams rethink how they approach data governance and compliance, making it easier to move from reactive investigations to more proactive risk management.
How does Copilot Purview help manage sensitive data?
Copilot in Microsoft Purview helps you manage sensitive data by combining built-in data discovery, classification, and policy insights with AI-driven guidance.
With Copilot, you can:
- Ask where specific types of sensitive data (like financial records or customer identifiers) are stored across your environment
- Quickly see which locations or users are associated with higher data risk
- Get suggested next steps based on your organization’s existing Microsoft Security and compliance policies
This reimagines day-to-day data protection work: instead of manually pulling multiple reports, your team can get targeted, conversational answers that support decisions about access controls, retention, and compliance actions.
How do we get started with Copilot Purview?
To get started with Copilot in Microsoft Purview, you’ll first need to have Microsoft Purview and the relevant Microsoft Security components enabled in your environment. From there, you can:
1. Configure data discovery and classification so Purview can map and label your data estate.
2. Set or review your data loss prevention, information protection, and compliance policies.
3. Use Copilot’s conversational interface to ask questions like:
- “Show me where our most sensitive data is concentrated.”
- “Summarize recent data risk alerts by department.”
As you use it, Copilot helps you reshape how you monitor and respond to data risk by turning complex security and compliance information into more accessible, business-ready insights.
You can learn more and explore setup guidance at the Microsoft link referenced in the original material (msft.it/6058oX1aC).
Uncover Data Risk w/ Copilot & Purview
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