Overview of Microsoft Purview APIs in Microsoft Graph

The Microsoft Purview APIs in the Microsoft Graph gives you the tools to build apps that are secure, compliant, and policy-aware by design. With a rich set of APIs 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 Microsoft Purview APIs can:

• Interpret actions to take on sensitivity labels.
• 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.

If you're building line-of-business (LoB) apps or multitenant SaaS solutions, using the Microsoft Purview APIs ensures that your app respects the value of the data it processes and the policies that protect that data.

To learn more about Microsoft Purview, see Learn about Microsoft Purview.

Why use the Microsoft Purview APIs?

When you integrate your application with the Microsoft Purview APIs in the Microsoft Graph, you can:

• Focus on the core value proposition of your app, while supporting data security and compliance outcomes as required by the organization, which enhances the overall value of the app for your customers (organizations).
• Help your customers meet their data security and compliance requirements for your app, which unblocks adoption of your app in their environment.
• Empower business users to interact with your apps in a secure and compliant manner, which improves business productivity.

Enterprise AI app integration benefits

You can achieve the following outcomes by integrating your Enterprise AI apps with the Microsoft Purview APIs:

• Protect against data loss and insider risk by:
  • Enable inline blocking of sensitive data based on data loss prevention (DLP) policy set within the enterprise.
  • Support Insider Risk Management (IRM) alerts defined in the policies.
• Address oversharing concerns by honoring sensitivity labels in grounding data.
• Enable governance for AI use to meet regulations and policies. You can send AI prompts/responses into Microsoft Purview to enable visibility of AI interactions, risk analytics and support all relevant compliance outcomes such as Audit, eDiscovery, Data Lifecycle Management, and Communication Compliance.

Next steps

Review the following resources to learn more about the Microsoft Purview and the APIs.

Learn about Microsoft Purview
Understanding Data Security, Compliance, and Governance
Data Security and Compliance for GenAI
Use Microsoft Purview APIs in the Microsoft Graph