Your Microsoft Purview Audit, Done Properly
Know exactly what your data is exposed to, before a board, auditor, or customer asks you to prove it. CloudGuard’s Microsoft Purview Audit gives you a clear, expert-validated view of your Purview configuration and data protection posture, using non-intrusive, audit-only policies.
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Confidence Isn't the Same as Control
Data moves faster and farther than ever across chat, cloud and AI tools, and many businesses lack visibility of where it is at risk. These are the situations that typically bring organisations to us and if any of them sounds familiar, a Purview Audit is probably the right next step.
Microsoft licenses like Microsoft 365 Business Premium and E5 include powerful security tools. But licences don’t configure themselves. Without proper deployment, you’re paying for capability that isn’t running, and your risk exposure stays exactly where it was before the upgrade.
Access rights inherited years ago, sharing links nobody remembers creating, sensitive sites open wider than intended. It builds up gradually, invisibly, until someone finally goes looking.Â
You can believe your data is under control. A board, insurer, or customer questionnaire wants proof, a current, specific answer, not an assumption carried over from setup day.Â
Microsoft Purview sits inside your E5 licence, but licensed doesn’t mean configured. Most SMBs use a fraction of what they’re entitled to, the rest is unclaimed value.Â
Four Places Where Data Risk Hides in Plain Sight
Every day we speak with CISOs, IT managers and security leads who face the same challenge. Data moves faster than we can control it, alerts are constant and it’s hard to know which risks really matter. With CloudGuard you get practical insight, enabling stronger data security smarter decisions and confidence that compliance will follow naturally.
We review whether your sensitivity labels and data loss prevention policies genuinely catch sensitive information across email, collaboration, and storage, or whether they’re switched on but not enforcing anything. Unenforced labels create a false sense of protection exactly where real exposure sits.Â
We assess your Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance configuration against your actual policy and risk appetite, not Microsoft’s defaults. Generic settings miss the specific behaviours your organisation actually needs to catch.Â
We identify where data exposure risk genuinely concentrates across users and collaboration workloads. Knowing where risk lives, rather than assuming it’s evenly spread, is what makes remediation efficient instead of exhausting.Â
We review access controls on sensitive Microsoft 365 locations to find oversharing, inherited risk, and governance drift. Permissions rarely fail loudly, they fail quietly, over years, until an incident forces the question.Â
Insight Without the Risk
Here’s how a Microsoft Purview Audit works from first conversation to final roadmap.
Phase 1: Expert-Led Discovery
We align the assessment to your business risks, regulatory drivers, and leadership priorities from day one, not a generic checklist run blind against your tenant.Â
Phase 2: Non-Intrusive Configuration
Audit-only Purview policies gather insight with zero production impact. Nothing changes, nothing breaks, and no one across the business notices anything happening while we work.Â
Phase 3: Evidence-Based Analysis
Every finding is reviewed by a Purview specialist to separate genuine risk from noise, so you get a short, meaningful list, not everything a scanner could technically flag.Â
Phase 4: Tested Against Relevant Scenarios
Findings are tested against practical data loss and compliance scenarios relevant to your business, not abstract best-practice scoring that ignores how you actually operate.Â
Phase 5: Actionable Outcomes
You receive an executive-ready report and a prioritised roadmap, aligned to Microsoft best practice, that tells you exactly what to fix first and why it matters.Â
Validated by Specialists, Not Left to a Dashboard
Most providers either hand you a raw Purview scan to interpret yourself or focus on threat detection with data governance treated as an afterthought. CloudGuard’s consultants are Purview specialists first, every finding is reviewed, challenged, and prioritised by a human, and the whole engagement is genuinely audit-only, so nothing changes in your environment and no change-management approval is needed to get started.Â
For Businesses Who'd Rather Know Now Than Find Out Later
CloudGuard’s Purview Audit is typically commissioned by IT Directors, Heads of IT, CISOs, and Compliance or Risk Leads at SMBs who already hold Microsoft Purview licensing and need a defensible, current view of their posture. Most engagements start from one of three situations:
A board, auditor, insurer, or customer security questionnaire has asked you to demonstrate oversight of your data, and “we believe it’s fine” isn’t an answer you want to give in writing.Â
Purview was configured at setup, or inherited from a previous IT team or provider, and no one has validated since whether it still reflects how the business actually works today.Â
Purview sits inside your E5 licence, but you don’t know how much of that capability is actually configured versus sitting dormant, unclaimed value you’re already funding.Â
What our customers say
For the first time we can see where sensitive data is really being shared and why. The report helped us focus our controls on the areas that matter most to regulators and clients.
The assessment exposed data sharing we didn’t know was happening between teams and suppliers. We left with clear actions that reduced our exposure without slowing down production.
Client data is everything for us. The Health Check helped us see where files were being shared and stored in ways we would never have caught ourselves. We came away with fixes that actually work in a busy legal practice.
After a near miss we needed to know where personal and tenant data was exposed. The Health Check gave us exactly that, as well as a realistic plan we could deliver with the people and tools we already have.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is the Purview Audit different from a standard security review?
Unlike a generic audit, this service uses Microsoft Purview’s native capabilities to analyse real collaboration patterns across Exchange, SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive. It focuses specifically on data protection and insider risk, not just policy compliance.
Will this assessment make any changes to our environment?
No. ThePurview Audit runs entirely in audit-only mode, meaning no configurations are altered. Your environment remains untouched while data and policy insights are gathered safely.
Do we need Microsoft E5 licences to benefit?
No. One of the key advantages of this service is that it works with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and E3 licences. CloudGuard helps you maximise the value of what you already own before recommending any licence upgrades.
What will we receive at the end of the engagement?
An executive-ready report written for a business audience, not just a technical one, plus a prioritised roadmap ranking recommendations by risk reduction, compliance improvement, and licence value. It’s built to be shared upward with a board or outward with an auditor or customer, so you have evidence, not just an internal file.
Can the findings be used to support compliance audits?
Yes. While the focus is on data risk, the assessment maps results to recognised standards such as GDPR and ISO 27001, providing technical evidence that supports compliance requirements.
Does CloudGuard help with remediation afterwards?
The Purview Audit itself is an assessment of your environment, but CloudGuard can provide additional professional services to help implement recommended actions, strengthen policies and improve ongoing data protection. This is our Purview ACCELERATE engagement.
Who should be involved from our organisation?
Typically, security or IT administrators with access to Microsoft 365, along with compliance or risk stakeholders who oversee data governance. CloudGuard will confirm required permissions at the start.
How do we get started?
Once prerequisites and permissions are confirmed, CloudGuard schedules a short kick-off call to define objectives, timelines and deliverables, then begins the audit-only configuration.
How much is CloudGuard's Purview Audit?
CloudGuard’s Purview Audit is £3,500, fixed. That covers the full engagement, expert-led discovery, non-intrusive configuration review, evidence-based analysis, and an executive-ready report with a prioritised roadmap. No day-rate surprises or scope creep.
Pricing
CloudGuard’s Microsoft Purview Assess is an expert‑led, outcome‑focused engagement priced at £3,500. It’s designed to provide organisations with a clear, defensible view of their current Microsoft Purview implementation & the data protection posture.
Start your Purview Audit today
See where your data is most at risk and how to fix it. CloudGuard’s experts will help you uncover hidden exposures, strengthen protection and get more value from the Microsoft tools you already own.