Microsoft Purview

Vision Diagrams

Eleven Microsoft Purview modules, each drawn as one architecture diagram that grows over three slides: summary, more details, even more details. Every deck adds zoom tables and what changed in 2025–26. Free as a PDF by email.

Data security

The Information Protection summary diagram

Information Protection

Sensitivity labels, encryption and auto-labelling across Microsoft 365, Fabric and Copilot, drawn in three levels of detail.

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The Data Classification summary diagram

Data Classification

The classifiers every Purview solution relies on to find sensitive data, and the explorers that show what they found.

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The Data Loss Prevention summary diagram

Data Loss Prevention

Policies that spot sensitive data in use and warn, block or restrict it, from email to devices, browsers, Copilot and agents.

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The Information Barriers summary diagram

Information Barriers

Two-way policies that stop, or only allow, communication and collaboration between groups of people.

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The Insider Risk Management summary diagram

Insider Risk Management

Turning signals about people and agents into scored alerts, investigations and adaptive controls, with privacy by default.

9 slides · PDF by email

The Data Security Posture Management summary diagram

Data Security Posture Management

One hub to discover sensitive data and risk across your estate, then fix it through guided, objective-based remediation.

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The DSPM for AI summary diagram

DSPM for AI

Seeing and protecting the data that flows through Copilot, agents and other AI apps, now part of the unified DSPM.

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Data governance

The Unified Catalog summary diagram

Unified Catalog

Data governance on top of the Data Map: domains, data products, glossary terms, data quality and self-service access.

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Data compliance

The Data Lifecycle Management summary diagram

Data Lifecycle Management

Retention policies, retention labels and records management: keeping what you must, deleting what you can, and proving it.

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The Communication Compliance summary diagram

Communication Compliance

Finding and fixing risky messages across email, Teams, Viva Engage, Copilot and third-party channels, with privacy built in.

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The eDiscovery summary diagram

eDiscovery

One case-based experience to find, hold, review and export Microsoft 365 content, plus AI-driven data security investigations.

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Inspired by Thierry Matusiak's Vision Diagrams for Purview (CC0). Redrawn and updated by Cloudly Move from public Microsoft documentation, November 2026. Not official Microsoft documentation.

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