turn everyday conversations into signals that prevent misconduct and regulatory penalties

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Modern collaboration tools multiply the ways employees share ideas, yet each new channel creates fresh exposure to regulatory fines, data leaks, and workplace misconduct. Hybrid work and BYOD policies blur the line between sanctioned and “off-channel” messages, while regulators now expect firms to supervise email, chat, voice, and even AI-generated content. Without a clear strategy, compliance teams drown in manual review and IT struggles to plug gaps across disparate systems.

What is Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance?

Purview Communication Compliance is Microsoft’s cloud solution for detecting, investigating, and remediating risky or non-compliant communications across Microsoft 365 and connected third-party platforms. It solves three core business problems:

Regulatory exposure: Captures and supervises electronic messages to satisfy rules from bodies such as the SEC, FINRA, HIPAA, and public-records laws.
Insider threat and data leakage: Surfaces early signs of sabotage, bribery, or unauthorized disclosure before damage occurs.
Workplace conduct: Identifies harassment, discrimination, or toxic language so HR can intervene quickly and uphold company culture.

What can you do with Purview Communication Compliance?

Here’s how Purview Communication Compliance translates its promise into everyday value: the capabilities below plug straight into your Microsoft 365 environment and give your teams instant, actionable oversight across every communication channel.

Launch supervision quickly without building complex keyword lists with AI-powered policy templates

Out-of-box classifiers detect misconduct (stock manipulation, harassment, gifts and entertainment breaches).

Ensure no critical conversation slips through the net with multichannel coverage

Monitor Microsoft Outlook, Teams chat and meetings, Microsoft 365 Copilot prompts, plus connectors for WhatsApp, Slack, and SMS.

Balance compliance oversight with employee trust and GDPR requirements with role-based, privacy-first review

Anonymize user identities and enforce granular reviewer permissions with full audit trails.

Cut manual triage time and speed issue resolution with investigation and remediation workflows

Flag messages, highlight risky terms, route cases, and let reviewers delete, notify, or escalate from one dashboard.

Give security teams a 360-degree view of potential insider incidents with Purview Insider Risk Management integration

Combine communication signals with file movement, device activity, and behavioral analytics.

Provide leadership with evidence of diligent supervision and continuous improvement with actionable reporting.

Pre-built dashboards track policy matches, trends, and false-positive rates; export data for auditors.

How can Purview Communication Compliance help your organization?

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Throughout the project meeting, AI-powered policy templates monitor Outlook messages and Teams file exchanges, masking identities with pseudonymization while surfacing any harassment or disclosure risks so the group can work productively without compliance worries.

During a live Teams stand-up, designers drop mock-ups in chat, developers paste code snippets, and finance shares projections; the Business Conduct policy and real-time transcript monitoring silently scan messages and captions for profanity or unapproved disclosures, letting the team innovate freely while flagging only true risks to reviewers.

Reduce regulatory risk

Keep email, chat, and voice traffic under continuous supervision with pre-built regulatory classifiers. Each potential violation is bundled into concise, audit-ready cases, giving your compliance team the evidence and trend reports needed to satisfy FINRA, HIPAA, and similar mandates while easing review fatigue.

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Foster a safer, respectful workplace

Purview Communication Compliance watches for harassment, discrimination, or threats and alerts HR before issues ripple through team morale. Pseudonymized messages with risky phrases highlighted let your investigators coach or escalate within minutes and uncover broader conduct patterns without exposing lawful private exchanges.

High-severity alerts flow into Purview Insider Risk Management, correlating risky chat about a new product launch with unusual file downloads and giving security analysts an early chance to stop an IP leak.

Two R&D engineers iterate on a confidential design in Teams; the Data Leakage policy template instantly checks each shared file for sensitive keywords, prompts them to apply the correct sensitivity label, and—because Insider Risk sees no anomalies—lets them keep collaborating without interruption.

While two HR managers trade salary spreadsheets in Outlook, the Personal Data classifier auto-encrypts attachments and masks employee IDs, with Insider Risk confirming normal behavior so they can finish the report confidently and on schedule.

Enable proactive insider-risk protection

Communication signals merge with file movements, device activity, and other behavioral analytics across Microsoft 365 to reveal intent well before data leaves your environment. Security teams gain a unified timeline that shows who referenced sensitive projects, when files were copied, and whether patterns mirror past leak scenarios—empowering early intervention to protect intellectual property.

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