Data Security Posture Management for AI
A special thanks to Chris Jeffrey for his contributions as a peer reviewer to this blog post. Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI provides a unified location to monitor how AI Applications (Microsoft Copilot, AI systems created in Azure AI Foundry, AI Agents, and AI applications using 3 rd party Large Language Models). This Blog Post aims to provide the reader with a holistic understanding of achieving Data Security and Governance using Purview Data Security and Governance for AI offering. Purview DSPM is not to be confused with Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) which is covered in the Blog Post Demystifying Cloud Security Posture Management for AI. Benefits When an organization adopts Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), it unlocks a powerful suite of AI-focused security benefits that helps them have a more secure AI adoption journey. Unified Visibility into AI Activities & Agents DSPM centralizes visibility across both Microsoft Copilots and third-party AI tools—capturing prompt-level interactions, identifying AI agents in use, and detecting shadow AI deployments across the enterprise. One‑Click AI Security & Data Loss Prevention Policies Prebuilt policies simplify deployment with a single click, including: Automatic detection and blocking of sensitive data in AI prompts, Controls to prevent data leakage to third-party LLMs, and Endpoint-level DLP enforcement across browsers (Edge, Chrome, Firefox) for third-party AI site usage. Sensitive Data Risk Assessments & Risky Usage Alerts DSPM runs regular automated and on-demand scans of top-priority SharePoint/E3 sites, AI interactions, and agent behavior to identify high-risk data exposures. This helps in detecting oversharing of confidential content, highlight compliance gaps and misconfigurations, and provides actionable remediation guidance. Actionable Insights & Prioritized Remediation The DSPM for AI overview dashboard offers actionable insights, including: Real-time analytics, usage trends, and risk scoring for AI interactions, and Integration with Security Copilot to guide investigations and remediation during AI-driven incidents. Features and Coverage Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM-AI) helps you gain insights into AI usage within the organization, the starting point is activating the recommended preconfigured policies using single-click activations. The default behavior for DSPM-AI is to run weekly data risk assessments for the top 100 SharePoint sites (based on usage) and provide data security admins with relevant insights. Organizations get an overview of how data is being accessed and used by AI tools. Data Security administrators can use on-demand classifiers as well to ensure that all contents are properly classified or scan items that were not scanned to identify whether they contain any sensitive information or not. AI access to data in SharePoint site can be controlled by the Data Security administrator using DSPM-AI. The admin can specify restrictions based on data labels or can apply a blanket restriction to all data in a specific site. Organizations can further expand the risks assessments with their own custom data risk assessments, a feature that is currently in preview. Thanks to its recommendations section, DSPM-AI helps data security administrators achieve faster time to value. Below is a sample of the policy to “Capture interactions for enterprise AI apps” that can be created using recommendations. More details about the recommendations that a Data Security Administrator can expect can be found at the DSPM-AI Documentation, these recommendations might be different in the environment based on what is relevant to each organization. Following customers’ feedback, Microsoft have announced during Ignite 2025 (18-21 Nov 2025, San Francisco – California) the inclusion of these recommendations in the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) recommendations section, this helps Data Security Administrators view all relevant data security recommendations in the same place whether they apply to human interactions, tools interactions, or AI interactions of the data. More details about the new Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) experience are published in the Purview Technical Blog site under the article Beyond Visibility: The new Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) experience. After creating/enabling the Data Security Policies, Data Security Administrators can view reports that show AI usage patterns in the organization, in these reports Data Security Administrators will have visibility into interaction activities. Including the ability to dig into details. In the same reports view, Data Security Administrators will also be able to view reports regarding AI interactions with data including sensitive interactions and unethical interactions. And similar to activities, the Data Security Administrator can dig into Data interactions. Under reports, Data Security Administrators will also have visibility regarding risky user interaction patterns with the ability to drill down into details. Adaption This section provides an overview of the requirements to enable Data Security Posture Management for AI in an organization’s tenant. License Requirements The license requirements for Data Security Posture Management for AI depends on what features the organization needs and what AI workloads they expect to cover. To cover Interaction, Prompts, and Response in DSPM for AI, the organization needs to have a Microsoft 365 E5 license, this will cover activities from: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, Security Copilot, Copilot in Fabric for Power BI only, Custom Copilot Studio Agents, Entra-registered AI Applications, ChatGPT enterprise, Azure AI Services, Purview browser extension, Browser Data Security, and Network Data Security. Information regarding licensing in this article is provided for guidance purposes only and doesn’t provide any contractual commitment. This list and license requirements are subject to change without any prior notice and readers are encouraged to consult with their Account Executive to get up-to-date information regarding license requirements and coverage. User Access Rights requirements To be able to view, create, and edit in Data Security Posture Management for AI, the user should have a role or role group: Microsoft Entra Compliance Administrator role Microsoft Entra Global Administrator role Microsoft Purview Compliance Administrator role group To have a view-only access to Data Security Posture Management for AI, the user should have a role or role group: Microsoft Purview Security Reader role group Purview Data Security AI Viewer role AI Administrator role from Entra Purview Data Security AI Content Viewer role for AI interactions only Purview Data Security Content Explorer Content Viewer role for AI interactions and file details for data risk assessments only For more details, including permissions needed per activity, please refer to the Permissions for Data Security Posture Management for AI documentation page. Technical Requirements To start using Data Security Posture Management for AI, a set of technical requirements need to be met to achieve the desired visibility, these include: Activating Microsoft Purview Audit: Microsoft Purview Audit is an integrated solution that help organizations effectively respond to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance obligations. Enterprise version of Microsoft Purview data governance: Needed to support the required APIs to cover Copilot in Fabric and Security Copilot. Installing Microsoft Purview browser extension: The Microsoft Purview Compliance Extension for Edge, Chrome, and Firefox collects signals that help you detect sharing sensitive data with AI websites and risky user activity activities on AI websites. Onboard devices to Microsoft Purview: Onboarding user devices to Microsoft Purview allows activity monitoring and enforcement of data protection policies when users are interacting with AI apps. Entra-registered AI Applications: Should be integrated with the Microsoft Purview SDK. More details regarding consideration for deploying Data Security Posture Management for AI can be found in the Data Security Posture Management for AI considerations documentation page. Conclusion Data Security Posture Management for AI helps Data Security Administrators gain more visibility regarding how AI Applications (Systems, Agents, Copilot, etc.) are interacting with their data. Based on the license entitlements an organization has under its agreement with Microsoft, the organization might already have access to these capabilities and can immediately start leveraging them to reduce the potential impact of any data-associated risks originating from its AI systems.
Can´t Sign confidential documents
Hello, I have a problem. I want to send confidential contracts to customers for signing with Adobe DocuSign. This contracts have a label "confidential" from purview and are encrypted. But now the customer cant sign the contract with DocuSign because of the encryption. Is there a way that they can sign the document? We must encrypt the documents because compliance reasons and ISMS. Thank you.
Two sensitivity labels on PDF file
Hi everyone, First time poster here. We encountered an interesting issue yesterday where we had a user come to us with a PDF that had two sensitivity labels attached. In Purview activity explorer, we can see the file hit the DLP policy and the two labels, but when trying to replicate the issue cannot do it, or see how this has been done. Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? We were able to remove labels in our PDF editor but in Office suite once a label is applied, I could not see a way to remove it. We tried applying a label to a Doc file, converting to PDF and then seeing if it was there where it was being asked for another label but it was not, it just let us change the original. Many thanks in advance!
Label group migration - existing files labelled with former parent labels
Hi, I have a question about behavior during migration from legacy parent labels to label groups. Historically, we were allowed to apply parent labels directly to content. In our environment, we have an existing parent label called PUBLIC which has sublabels. PUBLIC itself has content encryption configured, so during migration it will be recreated as a sublabel within a label group. As a result, there are existing files that are currently labelled simply as PUBLIC (applied back when parent labels could be used directly). Post-migration, we plan to de-publish this newly created PUBLIC sublabel from user-facing policies. My question is about what happens to those existing files during and after the migration. Will files that are already labelled as PUBLIC automatically be updated to a specific label within the label group, such as PUBLIC/PUBLIC, or will they remain labelled as PUBLIC with no automatic relabelling? In other words, does the label group migration perform any automatic relabelling of existing content, or does it only affect label structure and publication going forward?Justification not triggered when downgrading between sublabels under same parent label
Hi all, I am looking for confirmation of expected behaviour with Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels and justification. We have justification enabled in our sensitivity label policy. When a user changes a label between labels that belong to the same label group, no justification prompt appears. When a user changes from a label in one label group to a label in a different label group, the justification prompt does appear as expected. Is this behavior by design? Specifically, does Microsoft treat the label group as the enforcement boundary for downgrade justification, meaning justification is not evaluated when moving between labels within the same group, even if effective protection is reduced? If this is expected, is there any supported way to require justification when downgrading between labels in the same label group? Thank you!
Scaling Data Governance- Does a Purview in a Day Framework Exist?
Hello Purview Community, I’ve been exploring the available acceleration resources for Microsoft Purview, and one thing I noticed is a potential gap in the "In a Day" workshop series. While we have excellent programs like Power BI in a Day or Fabric in a Day, I haven't yet seen a formalized Purview in a Day framework designed to help organizations jumpstart their governance journey in a single, cohesive session. I am reaching out because my team is currently preparing something in this area that we believe will be very useful to the community and Microsoft in the future. Rather than working in isolation, we want to ensure we are aligned with the official roadmap. I wanted to reach out to the community and the Microsoft product team to ask: Is there an official "In a Day" initiative for Purview currently in the works? If not, who would be the best point of contact to discuss alignment? Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and seeing if we can build something impactful together!
Block transfer of labelled data through CLI Apps - Powershell
I have a ticket open with microsoft since mid november, and to date not fixed, still chasing. So we have labelled data, using a custom label intellectual property. We block and alert using it, from uploads to list of urls, to prompt to override, etc. So the label works. Next step is to prevent exfil using Cli apps. This is where the issue is.. Not working. Would you have any idea if this actually works? Has anyone set it up? In settings and then Restricted apps and app groups I have setup the following: Then I created a policy that is applied to my machine and my user to block the move and upload of data that is labelled as Intellectual Property (Sensivity Label) It should block when I am using WinSCP or powershell. It does not. I tried with the restricted app group and with access by restricted apps. None works My machine is in sync
Data Quality Error (Internal Service Error)
I am facing an issue while running the DQ scan, when i tried doing manual scan and scheduled scans both time i faced Internal Service Error. ( DataQualityInternalError Internal service error occurred .Please retry or contact Microsoft support ) Data Profiling is running successfully but for none of the asset, DQ is working. After the lineage patch which MS had fixed, they had introduced Custom SQL option to create a rule, and after that only i am facing this issue. Is anyone else also facing the same? I tried with different data sources (ADLS, and Synapse) its same for both. If anyone has an idea, do share it here, it will be helpful.Share Your Experience with Microsoft Purview on Gartner Peer Insights!
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