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Improve your DLP maturity with DLP Analytics

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Tim_Addison
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Mar 13, 2025

DLP Analytics has the potential to transform the way that you protect your organization from data loss by identifying and closing data security risks. Let’s take a closer look and explore some of the advantages to enabling this great feature.

What is DLP Analytics? At a high level, DLP Analytics utilizes machine learning to: Analyse your organization’s information sharing activities, Identify your organization’s highest sharing ri...
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Modaddy
Copper Contributor
Feb 19, 2026

Analytics seems to be only aligned to sharing externally in SPO and OD.  No mention of Exchange or Endpoint where in our organization would be the main exfiltration point.  Should analytics be providing Exchange\Endpoint insights?  If not is there a roadmap for this support?

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Tim_Addison
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Feb 22, 2026

Hi Modaddy,
That's a fair point! I think most of the recommendations that I've seen have been SPO or OD focussed. I do know that there was a long list of scenarios that had been envisaged for the feature, but not sure where this fits into the wider set of priorities or product direction. If you have a Microsoft rep that might be able to submit feedback for you, then I'd suggest reaching out as customer feedback goes a long way towards influencing priorities. Feel free to send me a message with some more details and I can lodge something for you as well.

I'm also very interested in how Security Copilot may influence things in this space. Agents, such as the Data Security Posture Agent are great! Not a replacement for DLP Analytics, but potentially a sign of what may come in future. It's a very exciting time to work in data security!

Tim