Data security isn’t just about where you store your data—it’s about how well you know and classify it. This week, let’s dive deeper into how Microsoft Fabric and Purview work together to ensure your sensitive data stays protected across all platforms. 🔑 Automated Data Classification: Microsoft Purview automatically scans your data sources, applying sensitivity labels based on rules you define. This ensures that sensitive information, like personal or financial data, is immediately recognized and protected. 🛡️ Protection Across Platforms: Once data is labeled, it’s protected everywhere—whether in Power BI, Excel, or any shared documents. Your labels follow the data across all services, providing end-to-end security. 📊 Seamless Governance: Sensitivity labels help you enforce policies automatically, ensuring that data remains secure, even as it moves across different systems within your organization. Flowchart Representation of Sensitivity Labels and Data Classification Process 📊 please see the flowchart in below! 👇 Here’s a visual breakdown of how Sensitivity Labels work from creation in Microsoft Purview, to classification in the Data Map, and protection across services like Microsoft Fabric: Create Sensitivity LabelsUse Microsoft Purview Information Protection to define labels (e.g., "Confidential", "Highly Confidential"). Labels include protection features like encryption or watermarking and trigger automatic classification when sensitive information like credit card numbers is detected. Data Map Classifies DataThe Data Map scans data sources and applies labels based on the rules you've defined. It classifies the data but does not apply protection at this stage.Apply Protection to FilesOnce sensitivity labels are applied to files (such as those in Excel or Word), protection features like encryption or access restrictions are enforced. Labels follow the data, ensuring that only authorized users can access it.Labels Follow Data Across PlatformsWhether your data moves to Power BI, SharePoint, or Microsoft Fabric, the protection and classification remain intact, providing seamless governance.

In today’s world, as organizations manage vast amounts of data across multiple platforms, the challenge is ensuring both accessibility and security. Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview work together to provide a powerful, unified solution for data storage, analysis, classification, and governance. 💻 Microsoft Fabric allows organizations to efficiently store, analyze, and visualize large datasets in one integrated platform. 🔒 Microsoft Purview focuses on data governance, tracking where data comes from, how it’s used, and who has access to it, ensuring compliance.By combining these tools, businesses can manage their entire data ecosystem—from data storage to how it’s visualized in Power BI reports—all within the Microsoft ecosystem. This integrated approach ensures smooth operations, enhanced security, and centralized control over the entire data lifecycle.🔑 Sensitivity Labels: With Fabric’s sensitivity labels, data can be easily classified and protected across reports, dashboards, and datasets. A standout feature is downstream inheritance, which automatically applies these labels to any content derived from labeled data. This ensures your data remains secure, even when exported to formats like Excel or PowerPoint. 🔄 Seamless Data Protection: Fabric ensures labeled data remains secure, even when shared or exported. For example, if a Highly Confidential label is applied to a Power BI report, that label follows the data wherever it goes, ensuring continuous protection. 🛡️ Real-Time Monitoring & DLP: Using Purview Audit, admins can track and monitor all activity related to labeled data, helping ensure compliance and prevent unauthorized access. Additionally, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies automatically detect and safeguard sensitive information in real time, reducing the risk of data leakage. 🔍 End-to-End Security: Together, Fabric and Purview provide end-to-end data protection. From classifying data to auditing its usage, this integration ensures that organizations maintain a high level of security and compliance while fostering collaboration.With these capabilities, managing and safeguarding your organization’s sensitive data has never been easier. 💼🔒

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