Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a relatively new solution that helps organizations manage their compliance needs across multiple cloud platforms and tools.

With the rapid adoption of cloud-based services, organizations face a growing need to ensure that their data and applications are compliant with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

Purview Compliance Manager is designed to simplify management and reporting and compliance, process, enabling organizations to oversee, and monitor their compliance setup and configuration in a single platform.

What is Purview Compliance Manager?

Purview Compliance Manager is a compliance management solution that provides organizations with a unified view of their compliance configuration across multiple cloud platforms.

It helps organizations assess their compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, such as GDPR, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.

The solution also provides recommendations for remediation and enables organizations to track progress towards compliance goals via scoring and dashboards and task lists.

Purview Compliance Manager is built on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and is integrated with other Microsoft solutions, such as Azure Active Directory, Azure Policy, and Azure Security Center.

This integration enables organizations to leverage their existing investments in Microsoft technologies and extend their compliance management capabilities to other cloud platforms.

The business organizations using Microsoft’s compliance manager can efficiently manage their multi-cloud compliance requirements. This software solution helps users throughout their compliance

journey by –

• Generating an inventory of data protection risks
• Managing the challenges associated with implementation of controls
• Staying updated with latest regulations and certifications
• Reporting for management and to auditors

Compliance Manager can reduce the risk by simplifying the compliance in the following manner.

– It has pre-built and customized assessments which are useful in different scenarios

• Pre-built assessments are used for common regional and industrial standards and regulations
• Customized assessments are used to satisfy the unique compliance needs of users

– Workflow capabilities to efficiently complete the risk assessments through a single tool

– Through this software solution, users receive a single tool to easily complete the risk assessment.

– It provides the users with: –

• A detailed guidance (step-by-step) on improvement actions enabling them to comply with the regulations and standards relevant for an organization. Users also receive implementation details and audit results for actions being managed by Microsoft.
• Risk-based compliance score enabling them to measure their progress in finishing the improvement actions and helping them in understanding the compliance posture.

Understanding the Compliance Score

Compliance Manager awards points for improvement actions taken to comply with a policy, regulation or standard, and combines those points into an overall compliance score. The compliance score can help prioritize which action to focus on to improve the overall posture and helps report on progress over time.

The compliance score is calculated based on Microsoft 365 data protection reference baseline information.

Key Features of Purview Compliance Manager

The tool pulls together a unified view of the compliance across the organization and surfaces dashboards, reports and scores to facilitate management and reporting.

Purview Compliance Manager provides organizations with a centralized view of their level of compliance across multiple cloud platforms and tools. This enables organizations to identify compliance gaps and prioritize remediation efforts.

1. Compliance Assessments:

Purview Compliance Manager includes a library of compliance assessments that enable organizations to assess their compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards. These assessments are based on industry best practices and include recommendations for remediation.

Assessments include several components, such as- ‘In-scope services’ (a particular set of Microsoft services which are applicable to the assessment), ‘Microsoft managed controls’ (used for Microsoft cloud services implemented by Microsoft), customer-managed controls (implemented and managed by users) and ‘Shared controls’ (Microsoft and users both share responsibility for implementing them).

2. Remediation Recommendations:

Purview Compliance Manager provides recommendations for remediation based on compliance assessments.

These recommendations include step-by-step guidance for implementing controls and mitigating risks.

3. Compliance Score:

Purview Compliance Manager provides a compliance score that enables organizations to track their progress towards compliance goals.

The compliance score is based on the results of compliance assessments and the implementation of remediation recommendations.

4. Integration with other Microsoft Solutions:

Purview Compliance Manager is integrated with other Microsoft solutions, such as Azure Active Directory, Azure Policy, and Azure Security Center.

This integration enables organizations to leverage their existing investments in Microsoft technologies and extend their compliance management capabilities to other cloud platforms.

5. Tracking Controls:

Compliance Manager can track different types of controls, such as Microsoft managed controls (used for Microsoft cloud services implemented by Microsoft), Customer managed controls (implemented and managed by an organization or user) and Shared controls (Microsoft and users share responsibility for implementing these controls).

Benefits of Purview Compliance Manager

1. Pre-Built Assessments:

Microsoft’s compliance manager has a wide range of pre-built assessments developed around industry standards and regulations.

They are built around best practices to help organizations in maintaining compliance with standards, applicable laws and regulations.

The process of creating and managing the compliance assessments for various organizations is simplified with Purview Compliance Manager.

It enables the users to find the gaps and rapidly rectify issues.

With Microsoft’s Purview Compliance Manager, users can tailor the assessments based upon the specific compliance needs of an organization.

The custom assessments can be configured to fulfill a business’ specific policies, standards and requirements.

It’s also possible to customize the assessments for inclusion of additional criteria.

2. Simplified Compliance Management:

Purview Compliance Manager simplifies compliance management by providing a single platform for monitoring and managing compliance requirements across multiple cloud platforms and systems.

The user-friendly interface of Compliance Manager allows the organizations to easily identify, evaluate and manage risks.

Users receive comprehensive risk profile information rolled up into a single enterprise platform to hep develop implement and manage strategies for risk mitigation.

3. Improved Compliance:

Purview Compliance Manager helps organizations improve their compliance posture by identifying compliance gaps and providing recommendations for remediation.

Enables Collaboration: Purview Compliance Manager enables collaboration between compliance and IT teams, enabling them to work together to achieve compliance goals.

4. Save Time and Reduce Costs:

Purview Compliance Manager saves time and reduces costs by automating compliance assessments and remediation recommendations.

5. Provides Visibility:

Purview Compliance Manager provides visibility into compliance, enabling organizations to identify compliance gaps and track progress towards compliance goals.

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a powerful compliance management solution that simplifies compliance management for organizations.

With its unified view of compliance, assessments, remediation recommendations, compliance scoring, dashboards, and integration with other Microsoft solutions, Purview Compliance Manager enables organizations to improve and achieve compliance goals for meeting internal policy and regulatory requirements and industry standards across multiple cloud platforms and systems.

By improving and tracking overall compliance, enabling collaboration, it saves time and reduces costs, and provides enhanced transparency and visibility, Purview Compliance Manager can help organizations manage and mitigate risks and ensure the security of data and applications across the enterprise.