Overview of Microsoft Purview API in Microsoft Graph

The Microsoft Purview API 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 API 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.

Why use the Microsoft Purview API?

When you integrate your application with the Microsoft Purview API, you can:

• Focus on the core-value prop 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.

Specific Outcomes for Enterprise AI apps integrating with Microsoft 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