Exploring Microsoft Priva

Microsoft Priva is one of the newer additions to the Microsoft Purview suite of products. Although privacy is a category of its own, strictly speaking, and not really under the banner of compliance as such, the Priva solutions are included within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This is an understandable decision from Microsoft considering that there is no dedicated privacy admin portal at this point in time. In the absence of a privacy admin center, Purview is the logical location for these solutions.

There are currently two Priva solutions: Privacy Risk Management and Subject Rights Requests. These solutions are not part of any existing subscription such as Microsoft 365 E5 and must be enabled as add-on licenses. First, let’s take a look at Privacy Risk Management.

Implementing privacy risk management

Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management allows organizations to set up policies to identify any privacy risks in their Microsoft 365...