Most organisations lack clear visibility into where their sensitive information resides

Across platforms like Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Exchange, large volumes of personal, financial, and confidential data are created and shared every day. At the same time, many organisations are rapidly adopting Microsoft 365 Copilot without first establishing the right data governance controls.

Without strong data classification, policy enforcement, and access management in place, sensitive information can easily be exposed to the wrong people, creating compliance risks and limiting the productivity benefits organisations hope to gain from Microsoft 365.

Are you experiencing these Microsoft 365 data challenges?

  • Lack of visibility into sensitive data.
  • Inconsistent data protection policies.
  • Growing compliance and regulatory pressure.
  • Difficulty managing data lifecycle and retention.
  • Investigating security and insider risk incidents.

Protect your organisation’s sensitive information with Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview is an integrated data governance, compliance, and risk management solution that helps organisations discover, classify, protect, and manage their data across Microsoft 365, Azure, and other cloud or on-premises sources. This helps organisations to reduce risk, improve compliance, and get more value from Microsoft 365 without adding extra administrative burden. Organisations leveraging Microsoft Purview report tangible and measurable outcomes:

30% reduction in the likelihood of data breaches.
60% reduction in manual compliance effort.
75% reduction in investigation time, searching for and classifying data.

The Microsoft Purview product family

Microsoft Purview brings together a powerful set of tools designed to help you protect, govern, and manage your organisation’s data with confidence.
Here’s a simple look at what each capability does and how it supports your business.

Information Protection.

Classify, label, and secure sensitive data across Microsoft 365 with automated protection policies.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP).

Stop accidental or unauthorised sharing of sensitive information across email, Teams, SharePoint, and endpoint devices.

Insider Risk Management.

Identify and respond to risky user behaviour early to prevent data leaks and internal security incidents.

Audit and eDiscovery.

Search activity logs, investigate security events, and quickly collect information for legal or regulatory requests.

Compliance Manager.

Monitor your compliance posture with real‑time scores, gap analysis, and recommended actions.

Data Lifecycle and Records Management.

Apply retention, archiving, and deletion policies to manage data from creation to disposal.

Data Governance and Discovery.

Map, classify, and understand where sensitive information lives across Microsoft 365 and other data sources.

Advanced Security and Encryption.

Strengthen protection with encryption, privileged access controls, and advanced security barriers.

AI and Modern Workload Governance.

Apply policies and manage risk for Microsoft 365 Copilot, AI workloads, and cloud applications.


Our consultants can help you configure and optimise Microsoft Purview

Professional Advantage’s Microsoft Purview consulting services will help you get the most out of its capabilities, enabling you to significantly improve your data protection and governance posture:

Purview Readiness Assessment

We help you define clear data governance goals and assess your current architecture, tools, and policies. From there, we identify risks and opportunities to strengthen compliance and optimise your data management.

Better together
Microsoft Purview + iWorkplace

Bringing Microsoft Purview together with iWorkplace creates a powerful, end‑to‑end approach to information protection, governance, and workplace productivity. While Purview provides the classification, protection, and compliance framework, iWorkplace adds the structure, control, and user experience needed to manage information confidently across Microsoft 365.

With the combined power of Microsoft Purview and iWorkplace, organisations benefit from:

Stronger information architecture.

Automated, policy-driven governance.

Better control of sensitive information.

Improved user adoption.

More effective Copilot and AI governance.

Australia’s information protection and compliance partner of choice

Professional Advantage’s consultants have implemented Microsoft Purview for organisations in financial services, government, not-for-profit, and professional services, helping them reduce data exposure and meet regulatory requirements. Our team includes several of the best Microsoft 365 consultants and industry experts in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.
  • Microsoft Solutions Partner — AI Business Solutions
  • Microsoft Solutions Partner — Security

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work and Security, organisations choose to work with us for these reasons:

Tailored approach.

We align information protection solutions with your business goals, risk profile, and compliance needs to deliver maximum protection and ROI.

Industry experts.

With almost 40 years of experience working with commercial, not-for-profit, and government organisations, we bring deep expertise and industry knowledge into our Microsoft Purview projects.

Consistent delivery.

We deliver exactly what we promise to our clients, every time. That is why we have consistently high net promoter score of 90+ and a 9.7-year average client tenure.

Microsoft focus.

We are one of the few multi-skilled Microsoft partners uniquely positioned to help you achieve more across Microsoft’s 3 clouds – Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure. And as a Tier 1 CSP, we can provide end-to-end services from licensing, consulting, implementation, and support.

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