Microsoft Purview offers robust tools for data classification and governance, but integrating XQ’s Zero Trust Data Platform can significantly enhance its capabilities by adding advanced encryption, policy enforcement, and real-time data control.
Here’s how:
1. External Governance:
- Governance Beyond Microsoft:XQ extends data governance beyond Microsoft environments, across hybrid deployments and to all types of data, not only Microsoft files
- More Data Type Coverage:XQ extends data governance to all types of data, not only Microsoft files and data types.
- Automated External Key Management: Organizations have full control over external encryption keys, ensuring that no unauthorized party—including cloud providers—can decrypt sensitive data as well as protect against insider threats.
2. Data-Centric Security
- Granular Encryption: XQ secures data at the object level with unique, rotating encryption keys, ensuring that classified data remains protected, even if it leaves the Purview ecosystem.
- Real-Time Data Protection: While Purview labels and classifies data, XQ enforces those labels by applying real-time encryption and access controls.
3. Enhanced Data Sovereignty
- Geofencing Data Access: XQ enables precise control over where classified data can be accessed, helping organizations meet GDPR, DORA, and other sovereignty requirements.
- Independent Key Management: XQ’s external key store ensures customers fully control their encryption keys, complementing Purview’s classification policies.
4. Seamless Policy Enforcement
- Automated Compliance: XQ enforces Purview’s classification policies by automatically encrypting data based on sensitivity labels and applying role-based access controls.
- Adaptive Security: Policies adapt dynamically to changing user contexts, such as device type, location, or time, ensuring continuous compliance.
5. Data Mobility and Control
- Cross-Platform Security: XQ secures data even as it moves outside Microsoft environments, enabling secure sharing across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems.
- Chain of Custody: Provides visibility into data access, modification, and movement, extending Purview’s governance capabilities.
6. Resilient Data Governance
- Tamper-Proof Audits: XQ ensures the integrity of Purview’s data governance processes with immutable logs and auditable encryption policies.
- Proactive Threat Mitigation: Real-time monitoring and encryption prevent unauthorized access or exfiltration of classified data.
Key Benefits for Organizations
- Stronger Compliance: Meets and exceeds global data protection standards like GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA.
- Increased Security: Protects classified data at every stage—at rest, in transit, and in use.
- Operational Agility: Empowers organizations to manage data securely across complex, distributed environments.
Bottom Line: XQ’s Zero Trust Data Platform complements Microsoft Purview by elevating data classification and governance into a fully secure, compliance-ready, and operationally efficient framework. This integration ensures that sensitive data is not just governed—but truly protected and controlled.
Frequently asked questions
What does XQ add to Microsoft Purview?
XQ adds encryption, policy enforcement and real-time data control to Microsoft Purview's classification and governance tools. While Purview labels and classifies data, XQ enforces those labels by applying encryption and access controls in real time. XQ also extends governance beyond Microsoft environments to hybrid deployments and to all data types, not only Microsoft files.
How does XQ enforce Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels?
XQ enforces Purview classification policies by automatically encrypting data based on its sensitivity labels and applying role-based access controls. Each object is secured with unique, rotating encryption keys, and policies adapt dynamically to changing user context such as device type, location or time, so protection continues even when classified data leaves the Purview ecosystem.
Can XQ protect Purview-classified data after it leaves Microsoft environments?
Yes, XQ secures data as it moves outside Microsoft environments, enabling secure sharing across hybrid and multi-cloud ecosystems. It provides chain of custody visibility into data access, modification and movement, immutable logs for tamper-proof audits, and geofencing that controls where classified data can be accessed, helping organizations meet GDPR, DORA and other sovereignty requirements.
Who controls the encryption keys when XQ is used with Microsoft Purview?
The customer controls the encryption keys when XQ is used with Microsoft Purview. XQ's external key store gives organizations full, automated control of their keys, so no unauthorized party, including cloud providers, can decrypt sensitive data. This independent key management complements Purview's classification policies and also helps protect against insider threats.