The practices and tools for managing data quality, security, privacy, and compliance across an organization. Like the rules and policies a library uses to catalog, protect, and provide access to its book collection — ensuring the right people can find and use the right data responsibly.
A healthcare organization uses Microsoft Purview to automatically discover and classify all patient data across their Azure data lake, SQL databases, and file shares — tagging sensitive health records, tracking who accesses them, and ensuring HIPAA compliance with automated audit trails.