Purview is powerful and complex. Siemserva audits whether your labels, retention, DLP, and audit log are actually working for you.
Purview covers sensitivity labels, retention and records management, data loss prevention, and the unified audit log, the data-governance backbone of compliance. It is also notoriously complex to verify. Siemserva audits Purview configuration so you know your data controls and audit logging are actually in force.
Siemserva runs standalone for full Microsoft 365 posture across configurations, logs, and CVEs, or right alongside Microsoft Purview.
| What Microsoft Purview does well | Where teams want more |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive sensitivity labeling and DLP. | Complexity makes it hard to confirm labels, retention, and DLP are correctly applied. |
| Retention and records management for regulated data. | Audit log health and coverage are easy to assume rather than verify. |
| Unified audit log for investigations and compliance. | No single, ranked view of data-governance posture. |
| Subject rights request and privacy tooling. | Mapping configuration to frameworks is manual. |
| Capability | Microsoft Purview | Siemserva |
|---|---|---|
| Audit log health verification | Manual | Native checks |
| Label and retention posture | Hard to see | Surfaced |
| Compliance mapping | Partial | MCSB, CISA SCuBA, more |
| Unified with the rest of the tenant | No | Yes |
Comparison reflects general capabilities at time of writing and is provided for research. Vendor features change; verify current specifics with each vendor.
Every finding, and the full graph behind it, is yours. Through the Senserva SDK and the Claude MCP you get complete access to the underlying Siemserva data, so you can query it, extend it, and build your own checks, reports, automation, and integrations on top. Nothing is locked away in a vendor cloud, and the data stays with you.
Siemserva does not just record pass or fail. It models your target environment, the identities, devices, applications, policies, and how they relate, as a queryable graph. That makes the data a foundation for new work: custom analysis, threat hunting, and automation, not a static checklist you read once and set aside.
Microsoft Purview consolidates information protection, data loss prevention, retention and records management, the unified audit log, eDiscovery, Insider Risk Management, and Communication Compliance. It is the layer that classifies sensitive data and proves what happened to it, the backbone of most Microsoft 365 compliance programs.
Sensitivity labels classify and can encrypt content, enforce watermarks, and restrict sharing, and they travel with the file across SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, and endpoints. A label taxonomy that is published, scoped to the right users, and actually applied (manually, automatically, or by default) is what turns classification from policy into protection.
Retention and records management keep what regulators require and dispose of what they do not, while the unified audit log records who did what across the tenant. Audit log health, ensuring auditing is on and retention meets your needs, is foundational; you cannot investigate an incident on logs you never kept.
Subject rights requests (DSAR) tooling helps fulfill privacy obligations under GDPR-style regimes, while Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance watch for data theft and policy violations from inside. These capabilities turn Purview from a labeling tool into a full data governance program.
They overlap. Purview is the data-governance side; Siemserva covers it alongside identity, device, and app posture so one scan answers both security and compliance questions.
No agents and no cloud service. Siemserva reads your tenant through Microsoft's APIs and runs on Windows or Mac. You can explore the whole product first on the free Advanced Microsoft 365 Security Simulator, with no access to your environment at all.
Yes. The Advanced Microsoft 365 Security Simulator and the game let you explore a full scan, the findings, the AI, and the reports for free. Scanning your own tenant uses a license key, and 501(c)(3) nonprofits get the full version free.
Yes. It supports multi-tenant and MSP fleets, with bulk tenant security audits and unified, client-ready reporting across many customers.
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