Empowering compliance in a complex regulatory landscape with Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

As organizations increasingly adopt AI-driven solutions and multi-cloud environments, managing compliance across diverse and evolving regulatory frameworks has become critical. At Microsoft Ignite 2024, we are thrilled to showcase the latest innovations in Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager—designed to empower businesses to navigate complex regulations, like the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, NIS2, and more.

Whether your organization is focused on data privacy, industry-specific standards, or AI governance, Compliance Manager provides the tools to help you proactively manage compliance, streamline risk mitigation and help ensure operational resilience. Let’s explore how these new features can support your compliance journey.

Here’s What’s New in Compliance Management at Microsoft Ignite 2024

This year, Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager introduces powerful new capabilities designed to help organizations tackle today’s complex compliance landscape. With tools addressing AI governance and global data privacy regulations, Compliance Manager offers enhanced support for navigating regulatory requirements with greater ease and efficiency.'

New Features:

• Custom Templates for Tailored Compliance
  Flexibility is key in the regulatory landscape. With Custom Templates, organizations can now modify compliance frameworks to match specific regulatory and operational needs. This feature empowers teams to configure regulations, making Compliance Manager a uniquely adaptable solution for your compliance management journey.
• Expanded Coverage with Key Global AI Regulations
  Compliance Manager regulatory scope has broadened to support both AI and other essential global frameworks, now covering the EU AI Act, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ISO standards 42001 and 23894. Beyond AI, we’ve added support for key regulations like DORA, NIST CSF 2.0, Indonesia’s PDP law, and Qatar’s Cloud Computing regulations, providing up-to-date support to address new and evolving requirements.

Figure 1: EUAI Act Assessment.

• Pre-Deployment Compliance Tool
  For regulated industries, compliance validation has often been a roadblock to efficient cloud adoption. Our new Pre-Deployment Compliance Tool enables customers to assess the regulatory alignment of Azure services prior to production deployment. This feature helps accelerate the path to compliant cloud solutions, reducing validation time from weeks to hours.
• Compliance History Report for Enhanced Tracking
  Monitoring compliance trends is easier than ever with the new Compliance History Report. This tool provides a timeline view of your compliance score, making it simple to track progress, understand score changes, and address recurring issues, helping teams build a more proactive approach to compliance management.

These new capabilities make Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager an essential asset for addressing complex regulatory requirements, supporting responsible AI, and empowering your organization to manage compliance confidently.

Addressing Today’s Compliance Challenges with Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

Compliance Manager is tailored to help organizations address key regulatory challenges by providing a unified solution for managing, monitoring, and enhancing compliance efforts. Here are the primary challenges it helps solve:

1. Navigating Complex Regulatory Landscapes: With an ever-growing set of regulations, Compliance Manager provides guidance and tools to monitor and respond to these evolving requirements.
2. Data Privacy and Security Risks: Compliance Manager's automated tools help to identify risks and enforce privacy best practices, mitigating potential exposures and protecting sensitive data.
3. Scaling Compliance Efforts: Compliance Manager enables scalability, helping organizations address both regional and industry-specific needs while maintaining a consistent compliance posture.
4. AI Governance and Accountability: The EU AI Act and similar regulations are driving the need for transparent, accountable AI governance. Compliance Manager supports organizations in establishing ethical frameworks, tracking AI systems, and compliance with principles of fairness, transparency, and accountability.

Figure 2: View your compliance score and recommended actions.

Key Capabilities of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager offers a robust suite of features to streamline and automate compliance management across cloud environments:

• Unified Compliance Dashboard: A centralized dashboard offers real-time visibility into compliance scores, risk mitigation efforts and control implementation. This enables organizations to efficiently manage compliance across the data estate.
• Automated Compliance Checks: Compliance Manager reduces the time and effort required for compliance checks through automated assessments that recommend actions based on risk levels, helping you stay ahead of compliance demands.
• Multi-Cloud Support: Compliance Manager extends beyond Microsoft 365, offering support for Azure services, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud services, providing a unified view of compliance across your digital ecosystem.
• AI Compliance suggested actions and workflow management for implementation of appropriate controls: With pre-built assessments and recommended actions aligned with AI governance requirements, Compliance Manager helps organizations adopt AI responsibly by providing specific insights to help implement controls aligned to regulatory requirements.

How Compliance Manager Supports the EU AI Act and Other Key Regulations

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager simplifies regulatory alignment for critical frameworks, such as the EU AI Act, by providing:

• Pre-Built Assessment Templates: These templates guide organizations through EU AI Act requirements, identifying gaps and recommending corrective actions to facilitate compliance workflows.
• Continuous Monitoring: Ongoing monitoring of AI systems supports alignment with responsible AI principles, such as transparency, fairness, and accountability.
• AI Governance Capabilities: Compliance Manager supports audit trails for AI use, helping customers ensure that AI-driven decisions comply with legal standards and corporate policies.

Accelerating Cloud Innovation with Purview Compliance Manager’s Pre-deployment Compliance Tool

Pre-deployment Compliance Tool, one of the latest features in Purview Compliance Manager, is a game changer designed to accelerate cloud adoption for regulated industries. This tool enables Microsoft customers to validate complex service compliance requirements during pre-deployment, streamlining the path to cloud adoption and reducing compliance process time with automation.

Begin Your Compliance Journey: Try Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager for Free

To experience the full capabilities of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager, start a free trial and explore how it can simplify and automate your compliance efforts.

Steps to Begin Your Trial:

• Start Your Free Trial: Sign up at aka.ms/PurviewTrial to begin your free trial of Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager premium assessments.
• Learn More: Visit the Microsoft Learn page for resources, best practices, and tutorials on setting up Compliance Manager.