What is Purview SDK?

The Microsoft Purview SDK gives you the tools to build apps that are secure, compliant, and policy-aware by design. With a rich set of APIs, SDKs, and services, the platform enables your applications to integrate directly with your organization’s data governance, security, and compliance policies.

As organizations use Microsoft Purview to discover, classify, protect, and govern sensitive information, it’s critical that applications handling this data also respect these controls. Apps built on the Purview SDK can:

• Detect and interpret data sensitivity labels and classifications.
• Enforce policies defined in the Microsoft Purview portal.
• Prevent data misuse by aligning with compliance and security requirements.
• Deliver a seamless and trusted user experience by applying policies natively.

Whether you're building a line-of-business (LOB) app or a multitenant SaaS solution, the platform helps you ensure that your app respects the value of the data it processes—and the policies that protect it.

To learn more, see Learn about Microsoft Purview.

Benefits of integrating with the Purview SDK

Integrating your application with the Purview SDK can:

• Help you focus on the core-value prop for your app, while supporting Data security and Compliance outcomes as required by the organization – thus enhancing the overall value of the app for end customers (organizations)

• Help your customers meet their data security and compliance requirements for your app and thus unblock the adoption of your app in their environment.

• Empower business users to interact with your apps in a secure and compliant manner, and in turn enabling business productivity.

Specific Outcomes for Enterprise AI apps integrating with Purview APIs

• Protect against data loss and insider risk by:

  • Enable inline blocking of sensitive data based on DLP policy set within the enterprise
  • Support IRM alerts per the policies

• Address oversharing concerns by honoring sensitivity labels in grounding data and inherit the most sensitive labels to the response.

• Enable governance around AI use to meet regulations and policies by sending AI prompts/responses into Purview to enable visibility of AI interactions, risk analytics and support all relevant compliance outcomes including Audit, eDiscovery, DLM, and CC.

See Also

Learn about Microsoft Purview
Understanding Data Security, Compliance, and Governance
Data Security and Compliance for GenAI