Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is a cloud-based solution designed to help organizations manage and simplify their compliance requirements across various regulations and standards. By translating complex regulatory obligations into actionable tasks, it enables businesses to assess, monitor, and improve their compliance posture efficiently. The platform offers real-time visibility into compliance status through a risk-based scoring system, facilitating proactive risk management and streamlined audit preparation.
Key Features and Functionality:
- Intuitive Management: Provides end-to-end compliance management capabilities, including easy onboarding, workflow management, control implementation, and evidence cataloging.
- Scalable Assessments: Offers over 320 ready-to-use and customizable regulatory assessment templates to meet multicloud compliance requirements across Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft services.
- Continuous Control Assessment: Automatically evaluates technical controls by scanning the environment and detecting system settings, providing continuous status updates and automatic credit results.
- Continuous Regulatory Updates: Keeps organizations informed with the latest guidance on regulatory, product, or control mapping changes, enabling timely improvement actions to meet certification requirements.
- Common Control Mapping: Allows a single action to satisfy multiple requirements across various regulations and standards, reducing redundancy and enhancing efficiency.
- Compliance Score: Delivers a quantifiable measure of compliance, helping prioritize impactful actions. This risk-based score can be filtered for specific regulations, standards, or solution categories.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager addresses the challenges organizations face in navigating complex and evolving regulatory landscapes. By providing a centralized platform with automated assessments, continuous monitoring, and actionable insights, it simplifies compliance processes, reduces risk exposure, and enhances operational efficiency. This empowers organizations to maintain a strong compliance posture, adapt to regulatory changes swiftly, and demonstrate due diligence during audits.