Forum Discussion

Charles1575's avatar
Charles1575
Copper Contributor
Sep 12, 2023
Solved

Purview integration - Where does the file content get scanned?

Hello,   We are located in Canada, there are no instances of MDA in Canada as far as I know. So we have an instance of MDA running in the USA for our tenant. If we enable purview information protec...
  • Keith_Fleming's avatar
    Keith_Fleming
    Sep 12, 2023

    Hi Charles1575,

    Generally with this integration we would extract the file content from the datacenter where MDA is located and then check with DCS to understand the what sensitive content is included, then discard it.  For the file itself we only store the metadata in MDA.

     

    That being said, anytime you are looking for 1st party scenarios I would suggest looking into Purview first and then use MDA to cover edge cases such as admin quarantine and scanning specific folders for instance.

Resources